Dixie cup

noun

noun

Etymology Originally a brand name, first used in 1919, after a line of dolls made by Alfred Schindler's Dixie Doll Company in New York.

Canada, US A disposable paper cup, sometimes waxed, especially used for individual servings of iced desserts.

One day I was looking at a little girl eating a Dixie cup of strawberry ice cream.2010, Carol D. Levine, Panic Child: A Harrowing True Story of Sexual Abuse, →ISBN, page 55:

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