coffee filter

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   filter (usually of paper) that passes the coffee and retains the coffee grounds

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Questions about coffee filter

What does coffee filter mean?

coffee filter means "filter (usually of paper) that passes the coffee and retains the coffee grounds".

Is coffee filter a common word?

coffee filter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.