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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
perk
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
enjoy
▪ Those, like Bord, who were a part of the sprawling Ailey inner circle enjoyed additional perks.
▪ At least he enjoyed his perks with finesse.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It's not always fun being an air hostess, but the perks are good.
▪ One of the perks of working for a fashion designer is that you get to wear lots of nice clothes.
▪ The professors regard foreign travel as a perk, and they go to all the international conferences.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Leisure time is not a perk.
▪ Park gave the members of the club, which was headed by Chun, fast promotions and special perks.
▪ Privilege parking places yield little profit, while special perks can precipitate horrendous losses.
▪ Some one else would get the perks of office; whereas a rector received the full tithes.
▪ The chives and parsley will provide a bright perk and a complementary flavor to the cheese.
▪ The truth is that most congressional perks have been eliminated.
▪ You are giving this unfeeling corporation so much, why not grab what you can in expense-account-paid perks?
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Fortunately in the second half the dance perked up.
▪ Moving the light spot is capable of getting an otherwise silent neuron to perk up and take notice.
▪ Striped shirt and pink tie perked up a little.
▪ Though you look as though you could do with something to perk you up.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perk

Perk \Perk\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Perked; p. pr. & vb. n. Perking.] [Cf. W. percu to trim, to make smart.] To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of; as, to perk the ears; to perk up one's head.
--Cowper. Sherburne.

Perk

Perk \Perk\, v. i. To exalt one's self; to bear one's self loftily. ``To perk over them.''
--Barrow.

To perk it, to carry one's self proudly or saucily.
--Pope.

Perk

Perk \Perk\, a. Smart; trim; spruce; jaunty; vain. ``Perk as a peacock.''
--Spenser.

Perk

Perk \Perk\, v. i. To peer; to look inquisitively.
--Dickens.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
perk

late 14c., "to make oneself trim or smart," perhaps from Old North French perquer "to perch" (Modern French percher; see perch (n.1)), on notion of a bird preening its plumage. Sense of "raise oneself briskly" is first attested 1520s; perk up "recover liveliness" is from 1650s. Related: Perked; perking.

perk

1869, shortened and altered form of perquisite (q.v.); as a verb, 1934 as shortened and altered form of percolate.

Wiktionary
perk

Etymology 1 alt. (cx informal English) perquisite. n. (cx informal English) perquisite. Etymology 2

n. A percolator, particularly of coffee. vb. Shortened form of percolate. Etymology 3

  1. smart; trim; spruce; jaunty; vain v

  2. 1 To become more lively or enthusiasti

  3. 2 To exalt oneself; to bear oneself loftily. 3 To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of. Etymology 4

    vb. (context dated English) To peer; to look inquisitively.

WordNet
perk

n. an incidental benefit awarded for certain types of employment (especially if it is regarded as a right); "a limousine is one of the fringe benefits of the job" [syn: fringe benefit, perquisite]

perk

v. gain or regain energy; "I picked up after a nap" [syn: perk up, percolate, pick up, gain vigor]

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Perk

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Usage examples of "perk".

At that very moment the water that was boiling in the coffee percolator made a loud perking sound.

With a whirring of strained servomotors, domed, rectangular, and humaniform heads swiveled, audio sensors perked up, and countless photoreceptors came into sharp focus.

At some point the percolator had started perking, so Cate put some sugar in one of the polystyrene cups and poured coffee over it.

The IT curve, the Propper Chair, and all the other little perks of the working life had lost their sheen.

She also had a little Baggie filled with twelve saltines, the perks of being a pregnant woman.

In a scaly hollow a crowd of naked Perks fled squealing from the echo of their bounding feet.

For a fleeting second, the thought of more tea did seem to perk Steyn up.

Somebody who was probably at a university or government lab because the salaries were lower than the new biotech companies were paying, and the somebody could be tempted by an astronomical salary and great perks.

A group of coffee-bar regulars, townsmen who stopped to sample her special blend and her cardamon or poppy-seed rolls before they went to play golf at Bogey Wells, arrived before the coffee finished perking.

On that road coppers rolled drunks for their small change and assured one another that bribes were just perks, and it got worse.

Peg Guester always says you got ears like a dog, perk up at everything.

He liked to say that living barefoot was a major perk of being a househusband, but Amanda had always suspected that he simply hated caging his feet, which were huge.

One could read, chalked on a slate: Rillettes du Morvan Fillet of veal with lentils Cheese Tarte maison The plump Magistrate perked up in this atmosphere, greedily sniffing the thick scent of food.

She woke to the bitter tang of black Colombian perking in the pot, the scent mingling with a buttery aroma of pancakes, the sizzle of bacon in its lake of fat, all lacing in their steamy collaboration to make a perfect moist morning And then she snapped awake, really awake-on the hard rover bunk, hugging herself in her thermoelectric blanket.

Disjunction seems of all expedients worst: If any stay, then stay should every man, Gather, inlace, and close up hip to hip, And perk and bristle hedgehog-like with spines!