Meaning

• One who keeps something.

  "Finders keepers; losers weepers]."

• A person or thing worth keeping.

• A person charged with guarding or caring for, storing, or maintaining something; a custodian, a guard; sometimes a gamekeeper.

• The player charged with guarding a goal or wicket. Short form of goalkeeper, wicketkeeper.

• 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.

• An offensive play in which the quarterback runs toward the goal with the ball after it is snapped.

• One who remains or keeps in a place or position.

• A fruit or vegetable that keeps for some time without spoiling.