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  • keg drum
    /kyag drom/ [cf. KAG; from construction] n. a drum made from a wooden barrel covered with goat-skin: 1978 (Bethel 40).
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  • keep somebody hot
    [from hot pursuit?] v. phr. to be at a person's heels, following him around and getting in the way. (Black)
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  • keep my (his, our, etc.) company
    [Atlantic; probably from earlier Cr. poss. adj. of same form as object pronouns] v. phr. keep (a person) company: Please
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  • keeper
    [OED, one who has charge or care of anything] n. the fisherman who stays in the boat to tend it
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  • keep a-(do)
    [cf. A1 marking progressive verb] v. phr. to keept doing (or any present participle): You gatty keep a-knock (Andros). 1.
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  • keep
    [Atlantic; "locally current in US" DJE] v. to hold (a ceremony); to carry out (an activity) in the prescribed manner:
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  • keck
    /kek/ [etym. uncertain, but possibly akin to CAKE vagina: cf.make /mek/, take /tek/; cf. also Yoruba kékèké DYL, Common Bantu
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  • kaya
    /káya/ [evidently a Jam, word associated with Rastafarians; cf. Bob Marley album Kaya with cover picturing a marijuana plant; cf.
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  • Kataya
    /kataya/ [thought to be an African tribal name] n. a group of people (like YORUBAS, CONGOS, etc.). (Nassau)
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  • katakoo
    See CATACOO.
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