for keeps

Speech parts

1. for keeps - Adverb

2. for keeps - Phrase

Meaning

for the winner to keep all

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

evermore always permanently forever eternally for good enduringly ad infinitum durably lastingly once and for all

Examples

I'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

Words in the phrase

for keeps

Close letter words and terms

for just a little bit for just a little while for just a moment for kicks for king and country for labor day