perk

Plural: perks

Noun

• an incidental benefit awarded for certain types of employment (especially if it is regarded as a right)
• Perquisite.
• A bonus ability that a player character can acquire; a permanent power-up.
• A percolator, particularly of coffee.

Verb

Verb Forms: perked, perking, perks

• To gain an advantage or benefit; to become more lively.
• gain or regain energy
• To make (coffee) in a percolator or a drip coffeemaker.
• Of coffee: to be produced by heated water seeping (“percolating”) through coffee grounds.
• To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of.
• To appear from below or behind something, emerge, pop up, poke out.
• To exalt oneself; to bear oneself loftily.
• To peer; to look narrowly, sharply, or inquisitively.
• To examine thoroughly.
• To perch.

Adj

• Smart; trim; spruce; jaunty; vain.

Examples

• Free coffee is one of the perks of the job.
• His score began to PERK up after he played a seven-letter bonus word.
• I’ll perk some coffee.
• The coffee is perking.

Synonyms

fringe benefit, gain vigor, percolate, perk up, perquisite, pick up

Anagrams of perk