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keys

/ 쾱ː /

interjection

  1. dialect.
    a children's cry for truce or respite from the rules of a game
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of keys1

origin uncertain
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And then there's Elon Musk, the wealthy weirdo nobody in America voted for, to whom Trump gave the keys to the federal government and told him he could fire anyone he wanted to.

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Beijing is still fumbling with the keys because Chinese people are not spending enough.

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Few schools felt they could trust him with their most valuable possession, but the Bruins threw him the keys.

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A new-build house inspector, known as a snagger, is urging owners to check their property thoroughly after picking up the keys, as he has found some strange things in people's homes.

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He also accused me of stealing keys to a car I didn’t drive and drafting words written in his handwriting.

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