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What does cup-tied mean?

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Adjective
  1. (sports, chiefly soccer, of a player) ineligible to compete in a cup competition due to having previously played for a different team in the same competition in the same season.
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They have to face the Ellesmere Port side without the addition of new faces as any more signings are cup-tied for the competition.
He will not be available for the Challenge Cup tie against former club Skirlaugh on January 26 as he is cup-tied.
With three players cup-tied, one suspended and another released this month, there will be four familiar names missing, and some unfamiliar ones on the bench.
Even if they sign, they are both cup-tied, having already turned out in the competition for their respective clubs.
A signing target for the Teesside club, his late introduction to the fray leaves him cup-tied to United.
I am cup-tied, but I would happily give up any involvement in the FA Cup to be here in the Premiership.

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