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Perking

To make (coffee) in a percolator or a drip coffeemaker.

📖 Definitions of "Perking"

verb
  1. 1

    To make (coffee) in a percolator or a drip coffeemaker.

    "I’ll perk some coffee."

  2. 2

    Of coffee: to be produced by heated water seeping (“percolating”) through coffee grounds.

    "The coffee is perking."

verb
  1. 1

    To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of.

  2. 2

    To appear from below or behind something, emerge, pop up, poke out.

  3. 3

    To exalt oneself; to bear oneself loftily.

verb
  1. 1

    To peer; to look inquisitively.

verb
  1. 1

    To perch.

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