Wiktionary
adv. 1 (context idiomatic gaming English) With an agreement or intention to retain what one gains or receives. 2 (context idiomatic by extension informal English) To compete seriously, with a strong resolve to win or succeed, as in sports or business. 3 (context idiomatic informal English) permanently.
WordNet
adv. for the winner to keep all; "they played for keeps"
Wikipedia
For Keeps is a 1988 American coming of age comedy drama film starring Molly Ringwald and Randall Batinkoff as Darcy and Stan, two high school seniors in love. Complications ensue when Darcy becomes pregnant just before graduation and decides to keep her baby. This movie is noted for being Ringwald's final "teen" movie, and is cited as one of her most mature performances, particularly in a scene where Darcy is suffering from postpartum depression after the birth of her child. It has been regarded as one of Ringwald's best roles.
For Keeps is the third and final album by The Field Mice. It was also their very first (and only) full-length release on Sarah Records - their previous two, Skywriting and Snowball, being mini-albums. "For Keeps" adheres to the Field Mice blueprint of ambient electronica combined with wistful acoustic/jangle pop with Bobby Wratten's lovelorn lyrical obsessions, best represented on the alternately reflective and soaring highlight that is "Star of David".
Despite the middle section of side two being taken up with three successive slow-paced and pastoral-sounding ballads, the album still demonstrates a certain eclecticsm that one comes to expect from The Field Mice. Opener "Five Moments", for instance, is a beautifully atmospheric showcase of co-vocalist Anne-Marie Davies' characteristically ethereal vocals. The album's most uptempo [and euphoric] track, "Coach Station Reunion", cheekily steals the guitar riff from The Beatles' "Doctor Robert" via an electric Byrds-ian Rickenbacker guitar, whilst "This Is Not Here" gives the origin of its title away with its blatant Lennon-esque stylings fronted by some psychedelic guitars and phased vocal effects. Two instrumentals bookend the second half: the first, "Tilting at Windmills", shows a more ambient side to the band, whilst the album's rockiest moment; the seven-minute "Freezing Point" which features frazzled Loop-like repetition and caustic guitars at its final coda, brings things to a noisy conclusion.
For Keeps may refer to:
- For Keeps (album), an album by The Field Mice
- For Keeps (film), a 1988 film starring Randall Batinkoff and Molly Ringwald
- For Keeps (book), a 1994 book by film critic Pauline Kael
Usage examples of "for keeps".
Find one of good appetite and no thought of it being for keeps, and romp the lassie sweetly and completely, and now and again, when she is asleep and you are awake, and your arms are around her and you are sleeping like spoons, with her head tucked under your ugly chin, pretend it is .
I feel another spattering coming on, though, Brother, and I think it's for keeps this time.
I feel another spattering coming on, though, Brother, and I think its for keeps this time.
The final aim must be to persuade Markhamwit and Glastrom to cooperate not out of fear or compulsion, but from motives of expediency and for keeps.
When I swear you in, it's for keeps--absolutely no blabbing about the details after you get out, understand?
Probably we couldn't legally claim the planet because the professors were intelligent and you can't claim a planet that has intelligence, but there were plenty of other ways we could get our hooks into it for keeps.
Now that I knew that these boys were playing for keeps, I draped the helmet over the gunbarrel and poked it forward cautiously.