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

Example: I’ll perk some coffee.

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

Example: The coffee is perking.

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 inquisitively.

To perch.