Make coffee and drink: cheers! (5,2)
I believe the answer is:
perks up
'cheers' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are verbs in their -s form, I can't understand how one could define the other.
'make coffee and drink' is the wordplay.
'make coffee' becomes 'perk' (short for percolate).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'drink' becomes 'sup' (to sup is to drink).
'perk'+'sup'='PERKS UP'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for perks up that I've seen is " Enlivens".)