A cup of tea (or sometimes any hot drink).
I’ve just put the kettle on – fancy a cuppa?
Whatever interests or suits one; one's cup of tea.
Similes were not my cuppa, anyway. My classmates tended to overload their writing with them (all-time record: six in one paragraph) and they stuck out like violins in a rock tune.
Pronunciation spelling of cup of.
I just felt like I wanted another cuppa coffee and I told her so;[…]and before I could get just one more cuppa coffee it was seven-fifty!
Contraction of cup of (with “tea” or sometimes “coffee” implied). See also a (“of”), pinta (“pint of milk”).
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