canteen cup

English

canteen cup in a mess kit

Noun

canteen cup (plural canteen cups)

(military, camping) A metal cup which can be nested on the top or under a canteen.
- 2005, Nathaniel Fick, One Bullet Away, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 343:
  My tin canteen cup was too hot to touch. I held it in gloved hands, blowing steam from the coffee and watching the sun rise over the fields beyond the fence.
Synonym: mess cup

Translations

metal cup used in the military

Finnish: kenttämuki
Hungarian: csajka (hu)

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