Meaning

(informal) Perquisite..

Definitions by Sense

1. (informal) Perquisite.
2. (video games) A bonus ability that a player character can acquire; a permanent power-up.
3. (transitive, informal) To make (coffee) in a percolator or a drip coffeemaker.
4. (intransitive, informal) Of coffee: to be produced by heated water seeping (“percolating”) through coffee grounds.
5. A percolator, particularly of coffee.
6. (transitive) To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of.
7. (intransitive) To appear from below or behind something, emerge, pop up, poke out.
8. (intransitive, obsolete) To exalt oneself; to bear oneself loftily.

Example Sentences

Free coffee is one of the perks of the job.

I’ll perk some coffee.

The coffee is perking.

While the coffee perked, she flipped idly through a gardening magazine and scanned an article on the war against aphids.

[the squirrel] whisks his brush And perks his ears, and stamps and scolds aloud

The blue jay was having a fit, and the sapsucker perked his bright-eyed little head at him not more than a dozen feet away.

1842, Robert Browning, “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” in Lyrics of Life, Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866, pp. 35-36, lines 152-153, […] suddenly up the face Of the Piper perked in the market-place,

1937 Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana, London: Macmillan, Part 4, “Kavar,” p. 159, A strong warm wind carried a sound of chopping with it and a rustle of dead plane-leaves; through those leaves perked the green crooks of young ferns.

Word Forms

• perks
• perq
• perking
• perked
• more perk
• most perk

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