KEEPER

Keeper

Keeper is a sports novel for young adults by Mal Peet, published by Walker Books in 2003. It was Peet's first novel and the first of three football stories featuring South American sports journalist Paul Faustino. Cast as an interview with Faustino, the world's best goalkeeper, El Gato, tells his life story. Peet won the Branford Boase Award, recognising the year's best debut novel for children.

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keeper

Noun

  1. One who keeps.
    Finders keepers; losers weepers.
  2. A person or thing worth keeping.
    You can throw out all the blurry photos, but the one with her and her daughter is certainly a keeper.
  3. A person charged with guarding or caring for, storing, or maintaining something; a custodian, a guard; sometimes a gamekeeper.
  4. The player charged with guarding a goal or wicket. Short form of goalkeeper, wicketkeeper.
  5. A part of a mechanism that catches or retains another part, for example the part of a door lock that fits in the frame and receives the bolt.
  6. An offensive play in which the quarterback runs toward the goal with the ball after it is snapped.


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