stirrup cup noun3 •A drink taken before leaving or parting company with someone.Mrs. French insisted that they come into her room for a cordial, when she heard they were leaving. “You must have a stirrup cup,” Mrs. French said to Carol. — 1952 •(historical) A parting drink taken after mounting one's horse.[…] after the Lord Keeper, the Master, and the domestics, had drunk doch-an-dorroch, or the stirrup-cup, in the liquors adapted to their various ranks, the cavalcade resumed its progress. — 1819 •A cup from which such a drink is taken. formsstirrup cups