perk
/pɜrk/ v [I/T] (MAKE COFFEE)Definition
› (of boiling water or coffee) to move up a tube in a percolator (= a type of container for making coffee) when the coffee is being made: [I] The coffee had begun to perk.
(Definition of perk v (MAKE COFFEE) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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