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[ adverb ] for the winner to keep all

Examples

"they played for keeps"

Used in print

(Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)

There was the day Uncle_Izaak had , in an unexpected grandiose gesture , handed_over the pretty sloop to Abel for_keeps , on_condition that he never fail to let his brother accompany him whenever the younger boy wished .

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