teacup

teacup
n.
A college student with a fragile, easily shattered psyche. Also: teacup kid.
Example Citations:
Toughen up, teacup. No matter how brilliant you think you (and your argument) may be, the day will come when you will be told in no uncertain terms that you are laughably wrong. Will you cry? ...
It's bad enough that the teacups think, feel and act as they do. That the rules of the lawprof game are to encourage this teacup behavior is absurd.
—Scott H. Greenfield, " Law School Lessons: The Teacup Rule: http://blog.simplejustice.us/2010/05/04/law-school-lessons-the-teacup-rule.aspx," Simple Justice, May 4, 2010
In the US, Skenazy says helicopter parenting has led to a generation of young adults so fragile they are known as "teacup kids'.
—Judy Skatssoon, " The perils of parenting: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/the-perils-of-parenting/story-fn6bmfwf-1225932554269," The Telegraph, October 1, 2010
Earliest Citation:
Bright college freshmen arrive on campus as ..."teacups"—sophisticated but overprotected ... says Wendy Mogel, author of "The Blessing of a Skinned Knee," which is among the best-selling of a wave of new books about pressure.
"The teacups break because they literally don't know when to eat, and what to eat and when to sleep," says Mogel, a Los Angeles psychologist.
—Jennifer Sinco Kelleher et al., " Lessons in How to Chill Out: http://articles.latimes.com/2002/apr/17/news/mn-38313," Los Angeles Times, April 17, 2002
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  • Teacup — Tea cup , n. A small cup from which to drink tea. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • teacup — ► NOUN ▪ a cup from which tea is drunk …   English terms dictionary

  • teacup — [tē′kup΄] n. 1. a cup for drinking tea, etc. 2. TEACUPFUL …   English World dictionary

  • teacup — /tee kup /, n. 1. a cup in which tea is served, usually of small or moderate size. 2. a teacupful. 3. tempest in a teacup or teapot, a disturbance or uproar about little or nothing: The fight over who should become the next assistant treasurer of …   Universalium

  • teacup — [[t]ti͟ːkʌp[/t]] teacups also tea cup 1) N COUNT A teacup is a cup that you use for drinking tea. 2) PHRASE: PHR after v, v link PHR If you describe a situation as a storm in a teacup, you think that a lot of fuss is being made about something… …   English dictionary

  • Teacup — A teacup is a small cup with a handle, generally a small one that may be grasped with the thumb and one or two fingers. It is typically made of porcelain ( china ). It is usually part of a set, composed of a cup and a matching saucer. These in… …   Wikipedia

  • teacup — UK [ˈtiːˌkʌp] / US [ˈtɪˌkʌp] noun [countable] Word forms teacup : singular teacup plural teacups a cup for drinking tea • See: storm I …   English dictionary

  • teacup — tea|cup [ˈti:kʌp] n a cup that you serve tea in →storm in a teacup at ↑storm1 (5) …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • teacup — noun (C) a cup that you serve tea in see also: storm in a teacup storm 1 (4) …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • teacup — /ˈtikʌp/ (say teekup) noun 1. a cup designed for the drinking of tea, usually standing on a saucer and often part of a set of such cups and saucers, and tea things. 2. a teacupful. –phrase 3. a storm in a teacup, a great deal of fuss arising out… …  

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