keeper

keeper
[[t]ki͟ːpə(r)[/t]]
keepers
1) N-COUNT In soccer, the keeper is the same as the goalkeeper. [BRIT, INFORMAL]
2) N-COUNT In American football, a keeper is a play in which the quarterback keeps the ball. [AM]
3) N-COUNT A keeper at a zoo is a person who takes care of the animals.
4) N-COUNT The keeper of a museum or art gallery, or of one part of it, is the person who is responsible for the things in it. [mainly BRIT]
Syn:
(in AM, usually use curator)
5) PHRASE: V inflects If you say that you are not someone's keeper, you mean that you are not responsible for what they do or for what happens to them.

`I don't know where he is,' Hughes replied. `I'm not his keeper.'

6) See also keep

English dictionary. 2008.

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