perk

1. (informal, transitive)To make (coffee) in a percolator or a drip coffeemaker.

   I’ll perk some coffee.

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

   The coffee is perking.

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

4. (intransitive)To appear from below or behind something, emerge, pop up, poke out.

   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,

5. (dated)To peer; to look narrowly, sharply, or inquisitively.

6. (dialectal)To examine thoroughly.

7. (intransitive, obsolete)To exalt oneself; to bear oneself loftily.

8. (obsolete)To perch.

1. Have you told Tom about the perks?

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2. Tom will perk up.

   ruТом воспрянет духом.

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3. It's a perk of the job.

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4. There aren't any more perks now.

   deEs gibt keine Vergünstigungen mehr.

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5. Joining the military has its perks.

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