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drip coffee

drip coffee

1 2.5
Coffee made by pouring hot water through a paper filter with ground coffee
  • noun
  • /drɪp ˈkɔfi/
translation icon : café filtrado
  • That's still a bargain compared to a cup of drip coffee, which can come in well over 100 mg.

I like drip coffee, like old school drip coffee, nothing fancy.

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Examples

  • And I'm having a drip coffee with, I'm supposed to say salt, no sugar and milk.

  • They have the little drip coffee machine and a couple of pouches.

  • I recently realized that I missed having good old drip coffee in my life.

  • I'm staying here to enjoy this $3 drip coffee.

  • You have a drip coffee maker, and yes, it needs a filter.

    Blog text (4)
  • This is the best drip coffee I think I have ever dripped anywhere.

  • I like drip coffee, like old school drip coffee, nothing fancy.

  • Vander went to the drip coffee machine on the counter.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • If it's the weekday, I buy freshly roasted ground coffee from a coffee roaster nearby and use the regular drip coffee maker.

    Blog text (21)
  • I enjoy starting my day with a warm cup of drip coffee in the morning.

Synonyms

coffee
vsdrip coffee
1.0

A hot drink made by brewing roasted, ground beans with water

is brewed by pouring hot water through a filter using an automatic brewer
cup of coffee
vsdrip coffee
432 1.0

A hot drink of coffee in a cup

is produced by filtering hot water through grounds using an automatic brewer

How Strong

espresso
88 3.2
cafetiere
  • UK
6.7
drip coffee
1 2.5

Surface Forms

drip coffee singular
drip coffees plural

Morphology

drip + coffee

The meaning 'coffee brewed by dripping hot water through a filter' is directly and transparently derivable from combining 'drip' (to let liquid fall dropwise) with 'coffee'. This modifier–noun composition describes the brewing method in a predictable way and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily understand it.

Etymology

Drip coffee comes from the simple picture of hot water making slow drips through ground coffee held in a paper filter. So, it means 'coffee made by letting hot water drip through coffee grounds', usually in a drip coffee maker.