percolator
Americannoun
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a kind of coffeepot in which boiling water in a repeated process is forced up a hollow stem, filters down through ground coffee in a sievelike container, and returns to the pot below.
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something that percolates.
noun
Etymology
Origin of percolator
Example Sentences
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He stopped to watch a La Parrilla worker pour a giant jug of Jamaica into a percolator.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2024
If your pipe has a network of small winding tubes inside the main piece, that is a percolator.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 1, 2022
The birds are chirping, a coffee percolator is bubbling, keyboards are clacking, and an Apple startup chime is ringing.
From The Verge ● Oct. 26, 2021
We may not be renowned, but Minneapolis’s history as a percolator of brilliance runs deep.
From Salon ● May 8, 2019
The trash can was full of banana peels, and the electric percolator bubbled into the tiny glass nozzle on top of it.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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