WordNet
n. the dregs remaining after brewing coffee
Usage examples of "coffee grounds".
But when the chicken she tried to turn into a piece of toast became instead a mess of used coffee grounds cupped in a lettuce leaf, the students all made a mental note never to accept an invitation to dine with her.
The medicine cabinet in the bathroom, he found, had Tylenol and aspirin, and there were coffee grounds for the machine in the kitchen area, but nothing of value in the refrigerator.
He reuses yesterday's coffee grounds, dresses in dishevelled chinos and sports jacket, and drives the southern California freeways in a shabby car still scarred by half-finished repairs.
She was allowed to eat two flavors of ice cream and take a bath at the same time, because no one should go to bed smelling of old laundry and shaving cream and eggshells and coffee grounds—.
No table tipping, laying out of cards, stirring of coffee grounds.
He wound on, feeling soon he'd start to think about collapsing and just letting the stream float him out with pornographic pictures, coffee grounds, contraceptives used and unused, shit, up through the flushing tank to the East River and across on the tide to the stone forests of Queens.
The coffee grounds had been thrown out when they emptied their pot for packing.