1736 Canting Dictionary / C / CUP of the Creature [thing]
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Cup of the Creature in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).