ICUP

ICUP or Spell ICUP is a made you say it prank that involves making someone accidentally say that they see someone peeing.

To spell ICUP involves a person telling another person to spell the word “ICUP”. They say “I, C, U, P” but it sounds nearly identical to “I see you pee”. It is similar to Who’s Duncan? and I eat mop. The trick is now pretty much well-known, so not a lot of people fall for it anymore. When someone is telling an ICUP joke, they don’t necessarily say “spell ICUP”, it can be “How do you spell the word “ICUP”?”.

The word ICUP, itself, is not a word. It is pronounced “I-cup”. There was a prank going around that Apple had made a new product that was an iPhone crossed with a cup, called an iCup. It was obviously a joke, due to the “spell ICUP” trick. "Spell ICUP" is usually a playground joke, told by kids to other kids. It originated by a kid texting his friends, trying to come up with a new texting phrase like how people use U to replace “you” and R for “are”, came up with ICUP, and it became a popular joke, however there is not enough evidence to prove this as a legitimate claim.

A way to not say “I see you pee” is when someone says to spell ICUP, is to spell it “E-Y-E-C-U-P”, as ICUP and eyecup sound the same. An eyecup actually is a thing, a cup around a camera for your eye.

Other versions include:

Say lettuce and spell cup. = let us see you pee

Spell IHOP. = I ate your pee (IHOP is a pancake place)

Say I, spell map, and say face = I am a peeface

Spell ICUP and say in your pants

Spell ICUP and say in the car

Spell ICUP and say in the pool

See also:

Who’s Duncan?

Spell Pig Backwards

I Eat Mop

Made you say it