Home > Terms > English, UK (UE) > Cup-and-ball
Cup-and-ball
A cup-and-ball is a toy consisting of a small ball (usually made of wood) connected to the handle of the cup by a string. The cup is shaped to fit the ball.
The main goal of the game is to get the ball into the cup. While the concept is very easy, mastering the game sometimes requires many hours of practice. To play, the player holds the cup by the handle and lets the ball hang freely. The player then tosses the ball upward by jerking the arm holding the toy, attempting to catch the ball in the cup.
This is auto-generated content. You can help to improve it.
0
0
Improve it
- Part of Speech: noun
- Synonym(s):
- Blossary:
- Industry/Domain: Toys
- Category: Classic toys
- Company:
- Product:
- Acronym-Abbreviation:
Other Languages:
Member comments
Terms in the News
Featured Terms
Industry/Domain: Astronomy Category: General astronomy
Thirty metre Telescope (TMT)
The Thirty metre Telescope will be the world's largest when it's finished in 2018, at the summit of Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii. The telescope, known ...
Contributor
Featured blossaries
Sanket0510
0
Terms
22
Blossaries
25
Followers
10 Best Tech Companies to Work for
Category: Technology 1 10 Terms
Browers Terms By Category
- SAT vocabulary(5103)
- Colleges & universities(425)
- Teaching(386)
- General education(351)
- Higher education(285)
- Knowledge(126)
Education(6837) Terms
- Natural gas(4949)
- Coal(2541)
- Petrol(2335)
- Energy efficiency(1411)
- Nuclear energy(565)
- Energy trade(526)
Energy(14403) Terms
- Ceramics(605)
- Fine art(254)
- Sculpture(239)
- Modern art(176)
- Oil painting(114)
- Beadwork(40)
Arts & crafts(1468) Terms
- Action toys(4)
- Skill toys(3)
- Animals & stuffed toys(2)
- Educational toys(1)
- Baby toys(1)
Toys and games(11) Terms
- Wireless networking(199)
- Modems(93)
- Firewall & VPN(91)
- Networking storage(39)
- Routers(3)
- Network switches(2)