Definition of "keps" []

• A variant of keeps. See keeps and cage-shuts. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "It was in the palmy days of the traffic with the Isle of Man, when that tight little island supplied the best French brandy for the drouthy lairds of half Scotland, also lace for the "keps" and stomachers of their dames, not to speak of the Sabbath silks of the farmer's goodwife, wherein she brawly showed that she had as proper a respect for herself in the house of God as my lady herself."
• "He's an utterly unrepentant hacker, yet he wonders what strange force keps gets his boxes banned."
• "Keep at it Grandpa, if the ole 'ticker keps tickin, you might make through your next hundred days ... we'll worry about your FIRST hundred days after that milestone."