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mankept

mankept is the simple past and past participle of mankeep.

Meaning of mankeep

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

Questions about mankept

What is mankept the simple past and past participle of?
Mankept is the simple past and past participle of mankeep.

Words near mankept in the dictionary

  1. mankeeper
  2. mankeepers
  3. mankeeping
  4. mankeeps
  5. Mankell
  6. mankept
  7. Manker
  8. Mankers
  9. Mankes
  10. manketti
  11. mankettis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mankept (page history and authors); mankeep (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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