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Meanings of perk up in English
Cause to be alert and energetic.
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Examples for "perk"
Examples for "perk"
1
Try search out one or two to try perk up your home.
2
Another 4 percent even offer fully paid sabbaticals as a juicy perk.
3
Once their idea of a perk was a few drinks at Christmas.
4
Don't get the idea that this is some kind of a perk.
5
Andy forgot his personal embarrassment and began to perk up his ears.
1
In this angel-fearful place, all manner of things percolate through the dark.
2
This took a while to stop seeming funny, and to percolate inwards.
3
The justices should not let more such laws and resulting constitutional challenges percolate.
4
You have to wait for the right one to percolate though.
5
Lost in thought, I let my mind percolate on its own.
1
Analysts expect the broad market for IPOs to pick up next year.
2
Also, pick up the September issue of EBONY to read Keys' interview.
3
Too far left or right and it won't pick up your hands.
4
Storywise, things pick up one year after the events of the original.
5
Connor Watson is the number one pick up this week if available.
Usage of perk up in English
1
Try search out one or two to try perk up your home.
2
Andy forgot his personal embarrassment and began to perk up his ears.
3
Sometimes he would seem to perk up for a Day or two.
4
Diane began to perk up as soon as she took a bite.
5
Don't be alarmed if they flop for a few days: they'll perk up.
6
When they do, judges perk up and think there must be a reason.
7
It made every man in the grill-room perk up his ears.
8
Fill the bowl with bottled water, and maybe he'll perk up.'
9
I pretended to perk up, writing incomprehensible notes in my notebook.
10
Reggie's guys Del and Miguel, at our end of the table, perk up.
11
I'm a hopin' that p'haps with you around she may perk up some.
12
Its 100 per cent cotton cord and line pouffes will perk up any room.
13
Feel free to have a cup of coffee in the morning to perk up.
14
The clothes that made the more jaded audience members perk up, however, were light-based.
15
He saw Beauregard's ears perk up as they both heard the outside door open.
16
A quarter-point decrease alone won't perk up a sluggish economy.
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Translations for perk up
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Perk up through the time
Perk up across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common