keeper
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pər noun
1.
a person who guards or watches, as at a prison or gate.
2.
a person who assumes responsibility for another's behavior: He refused to be his brother's keeper.
3.
a person who owns or operates a business (usually used in combination): a hotelkeeper.
4.
a person who is responsible for the maintenance of something (often used in combination): a zookeeper; a groundskeeper.
5.
a person charged with responsibility for the preservation and conservation of something valuable, as a curator or game warden.
6.
a person who conforms to or abides by a requirement: a keeper of his word.
7.
a fish that is of sufficient size to be caught and retained without violating the law.
8.
Football. a play in which the quarterback retains the ball and runs with it, usually after faking a hand-off or pass.
9.
something that serves to hold in place, retain, etc., as on a door lock.
10.
something that lasts well, as a fruit.
11.
12.
an iron or steel bar placed across the poles of a permanent horseshoe magnet for preserving the strength of the magnet during storage.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a person in charge of animals, esp in a zoo |
| 2. | a person in charge of a museum, collection, or section of a museum |
| 3. | a person in charge of other people, such as a warder in a jail |
| 4. | goalkeeper wicketkeeper See gamekeeper |
| 5. | a person who keeps something |
| 6. | a device, such as a clip, for keeping something in place |
| 7. | a soft iron or steel bar placed across the poles of a permanent magnet to close the magnetic circuit when it is not in use |
| 'keeperless | |
| —adj | |
| 'keepership | |
| —n | |
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| Main Entry: | keeper |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | See trapper |
Slang Dictionary
keeper definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Example sentences
Wildlife enthusiasts paid the lighthouse keeper to protect the two birds from hunters.
Comment on a letter received from a hysterical lighthouse keeper.
And soon after was back stateside where became a licensed general falconer and venomous reptile keeper.
Their choice between holding up a shop keeper or killing an endangered animal depends on proximity and ease.
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