[Ads-l] tumbler

[Jonathan Lighter]

MAW has:

"a drinking glass without foot or stem and originally with pointed or
convex base"

All very true, but a current TV commercial for  Custom In.
specifically uses the word to refer to a tall plastic cup, wider above
the middle, bearing a corporate or other logo.

Of course, the clever MW def. could refer to any kind of stemless
drinking glass or cup.

But these tall plastic cups do seem to require a special name.

JL
-- 
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