coffee grounds

1. 1.

   the dregs remaining after brewing coffee

   Broadergrounds

   plural

Questions about coffee grounds

What does coffee grounds mean?

coffee grounds means "the dregs remaining after brewing coffee".

Is coffee grounds a common word?

coffee grounds 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.