(v. t.) 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.
(v. i.) To exalt one's self; to bear one's self loftily.
(a.) Smart; trim; spruce; jaunty; vain.
(v. i.) To peer; to look inquisitively.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, between matches, players can test all their new perks and weapons via an easily accessible firing range – instead of having to try them out in a match.
(2) He had earlier seen little support for his push to cut EU pay and perks.
(3) A number of companies, including B&Q, Tesco and Morrisons have raised basic pay only to cut perks and premium payments for weekend, holiday or late working.
(4) The company previously attracted heavy criticism with plans to eliminate the morning perk of free tea and toast handed out to staff across 230 stores.
(5) We’re not asking for perks, just for recognition on how hard we really do work, and not taking a pay cut is part of this.
(6) July 8, 2014 Richard Perks (@RichardP_Mintel) Has M&S been switching space from furniture to clothing to make the clothing figures look better?
(7) However, BA believes it has tempered willingness to strike by the threat to withdraw travel perks and by running a robust contingency schedule during 22 days for strikes during March, May and June.
(8) VIPs, VVIPs or even VVVIPs – almost all government officials – can receive perks ranging from free housing in listed villas with staff paid by the government, bodyguards who act as personal assistants, free flights, unobstructed passage through airports or train stations as well as a significant degree of de facto legal impunity.
(9) Yet, the current proposal appears aimed at ludicrously legislating the economic cycle and creating ever higher fixed salaries and perks for those leading the largest banks.
(10) BA has offered to reinstate staff travel perks but without the seniority clauses that give long-serving cabin crew priority over junior colleagues.
(11) The authors previously reported morning-to-evening changes in ophthalmic measurements at 3 months and at 1-year after radial keratotomy in a self-selected group of patients in the Prospective Evaluation of Radial Keratotomy (PERK) study.
(12) They did, however, let the dog diner sit on the banquette to eat his lunch – quite possibly a first – and swiftly perked up when the owner came out to greet him.
(13) There are 30 new weapons, including a new class of marksman rifles; Perks now have a points system, allowing you to buy several weaker options or opt for one or two really meaty specials.
(14) She apparently thought she could “conscientiously object” and keep the perks of the job she conscientiously objects to performing at the same time.
(15) Always a good cook, she had a Damascene moment one day when, looking for a way to perk up a slightly flat pasta dish, she gave it a squeeze of lemon.
(16) Should pensioners forfeit perks or Labour impose a higher corporation tax?
(17) More highly myopic patients in the PERK population (-4.50 to -8.00 diopters [D]) demonstrated corneas that are 0.08 to 0.10 mm steeper than the less myopic population (-2.00 to -3.12 D).
(18) A proposed deal was reached in May, but one which included sanctions against crew who had been on strike and deprived low-paid staff of travel perks.
(19) These days the Radiohead frontman tries to calm himself down – and perk up his spirits – with yoga and meditation.
(20) The business's values, which include "putting the happiness of partners at the centre of everything we do", have not always been fashionable but the formula of rewarding staff – on top of the bonus staff will receive discounts and perks ranging from subsidised holidays to sailing clubs and theatre outings worth £120m this year – went from strength to strength during the recession.
Perky
Definition:
(a.) Perk; pert; jaunty; trim.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ishaq Siddiqi, market strategist at ETX Capital , summed up the markets: Equities looking perky, US dollar gaining lost ground versus other currencies, gold reversing previous session gains... and bonds falling out of favour on risk-on mood currently sweeping price-action.
(2) Mental visual imagery interferes with vision: the Perky (1910) effect.
(3) When I asked a Swedish friend what the tent, pastel kitchen units, and perky crockery displays in All of Sweden is Baking brought to mind, she replied, immediately: “Ikea and summer weekend cabins.” Phillips has not even lost hope of selling the format to China, which has no tradition of covered ovens, let alone baking – despite the fact that one broadcaster has turned her down on the grounds that Chinese audiences won’t watch a television programme “that makes you fat”.
(4) One Wild Moment was previously remade by Hollywood in 1984 as Blame it on Rio, with Michael Caine as the older man who embarks on an affair with Michelle Johnson's perky teenager in a version that also provided an early role for Demi Moore.
(5) Fleet Street Fox, media blogger, aka Susie Boniface Jane Austen is a perfectly good writer, and I enjoy reading about perky young girls and smouldering, tightly breeched heroes as much as anyone.
(6) On interest rates, the Bank of England still has the pedal to the metal, and George Osborne has made sure the housing market is perky verging on pesky .
(7) In a recent Grantland podcast , the head of the US network Comedy Central suggested that the success of perky shows such as Parks And Recreation was due to Generation Y's more optimistic outlook on life.
(8) His chatter on- and off-air has a smooth, perky tone perfect for linking Zack FM favourites such as REO Speedwagon and Madonna.
(9) Entertainment Weekly, which has had the inside line on Abrams’ film, has posted an intriguing look at the perky orange-and-white ball droid, which we believe begins the movie as an aide to X-Wing pilot Poe Dameron, but has been seen in the company of Daisy Ridley’s Rey, and even on board the Millennium Falcon, in trailers and TV spots.
(10) Skylarks are smallish, brown birds with a perky crest and streaky plumage.
(11) Before that, his teenage band the Jades had released two entirely unexceptional doo-wop tracks in 1958 and two years later he had chanced his arm as a solo singer, recording in the perky, post-rock'n'roll style that predominated in pre-Beatles America.
(12) It's a bit late now for Sir Mervyn to talk of taking away the punch bowl, just as perky ministers boast of green shoots, turning corners and Danny Alexander's "increasing momentum" .
(13) There's perky, honeyed jazz from the live band when guests step on stage and plenty of warm laughter from the live audience, which sits rather awkwardly on radio: it's not always clear what the laughs are about, and it's odd to hear the midday news, for example, signed off with unexplained guffaws.
(14) This interference was interpreted as showing the assimilation of the signal tone into imagery, i.e., the effect described by Perky in 1910, occurred in the auditory modality.
(15) While the perky Jack Russell was banned from the Oscar nominations owing to an academy rule, he did take the coveted Palm Dog gong at Cannes in May 2011 and triumphed in the inaugural Golden Collar awards in LA in February.
(16) Here is Alfred Drury's perky 1930s statue of Sir Joshua, palette in hand and manner breezily conversational.
(17) Then I looked at the lyrics, and what strikes you is the crazy dichotomy of the very perky music, and these incredibly revolutionary lyrics.
(18) And the truth is, most of them were never in a recording studio again (2007) ON STEPHEN GATELY BEING GAY I had no idea… on my mother's life (2008) ON USING A "BANG" (BAND AUTOMATIC NAME GENERATOR) Some of the suggestions I got were Perky Gravy, Silk Radius, Witless and Curly Spam (2007) ON THE BEST THING ABOUT THE X FACTOR It's real, everything is real, nothing is staged (2007) ON GIRL BANDS There's a common perception that behind the scenes it's all catfights and screaming rows.
(19) These are riddled with misogyny (the cook on the Good Ship Venus serves up a stew of female gynaecological waste products) and other bigotries, including the perky verse in Four and Twenty Virgins when the “village cripple” who “wasn’t up to much” is laid on his back so that he can be “fucked with his crutch”.
(20) Grazia Daily , for example, recently ran a whole article about how Kardashian dresses her "designer booty", cooing over how her "perky posterior ... wiggles with abandon in a suede pencil skirt", as though the journalist were a thigh-rubbing Benny Hill fan as opposed to a writer for a magazine ostensibly aimed at women.