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mankeep

mankeep verb: to engage in mankeeping.

Verb

mankeep (third-person singular simple present mankeeps, present participle mankeeping, simple past and past participle mankept)

  1. To engage in mankeeping.
    • Yes, but mankeeping is a real thing: men don’t mankeep; women mankeep.2025 June 16, “Mankeeping: why single women are giving up dating”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 24 Jul 2025

Forms of mankeep

third-person singular presentmankeeps
present participlemankeeping
past participlemankept
pastmankept

Origin of mankeep

Back-formation from mankeeping, equivalent to man + keep.

Questions about mankeep

What does mankeep mean?
Mankeep means to engage in mankeeping.
What part of speech is mankeep?
Mankeep is a verb.
What is the past tense of mankeep?
The past tense of mankeep is mankept.

Words near mankeep in the dictionary

  1. Mankas
  2. Mankato
  3. Mankayan
  4. Manke
  5. manked
  6. mankeep
  7. mankeeper
  8. mankeepers
  9. mankeeping
  10. mankeeps
  11. Mankell

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