keeper
Pronunciation: /ˈkiːpə/
noun
- 1a person who manages or looks after something or someone: I can’t stop him—I’m his wife, not his keeper
- a custodian of a museum or gallery collection:
- an animal attendant employed in a zoo.
- short for gamekeeper.
- 2short for goalkeeper or wicketkeeper.
- 3a plain ring worn to preserve a hole in a pierced ear lobe; a sleeper.
- a ring worn to keep a more valuable one on the finger.
- a bar of soft iron placed across the poles of a horseshoe magnet to maintain its strength.
- 4
- 5a fish large enough to be kept when caught: these lakes consistently give up healthy, pound-size keepers
- informal a person or thing that is valuable and to be cherished: this disc is a keeper and one that belongs on every serious DVD collector’s shelf if he’s a good communicator and a great listener, he’s a keeper
