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keepers

noun

Meaning

  1. One who keeps something.
  2. A person or thing worth keeping.
  3. A person charged with guarding or caring for, storing, or maintaining something; a custodian, a guard; sometimes a gamekeeper.
  4. The player charged with guarding a goal or wicket. Short form of goalkeeper, wicketkeeper.
  5. A part of a mechanism that catches or retains another part, for example the part of a door lock that fits in the frame and receives the bolt.
  6. An offensive play in which the quarterback runs toward the goal with the ball after it is snapped.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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