1. for keeps - Adverb
2. for keeps - Phrase
for the winner to keep all
Source: WordNetI've been killing characters my entire career, maybe I'm just a bloody minded bastard, I don't know, [but] when my characters are in danger, I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps. George R. R. Martin
Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps. Harold Macmillan
You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps. L. Ron Hubbard
Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live. Haruki Murakami
... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you. Nelson Algren
When I get married it will be for keeps. Natalie Wood