keep cave

present singular third person keeps cave · participle present keeping cave · participle past kept cave · past kept cave

1. UKschool slangTo maintain vigilance.

   I'll keep cave for ten minutes.

   1911, Cosmo Hamilton, “Why Cupid Came to Earl’s Court”, in Short Plays for Small Stages, page 9

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   I vote we go down and explore. No one will come up this time o' day. We needn't keep cavé.

   1899 January, Rudyard Kipling, “An Unsavoury Interlude”, in Stalky & Co., London: Macmillan & Co., published 1899, →OCLC, page 73

   Pip was mounting guard at the shed, and had undertaken to get Judy safely away, and Bunty had been stationed on the back verandah to keep cave and whistle three times if there was any danger.

   1912, Ethel Turner, Seven Little Australians, page 154

   Synonyms: keep a lookout, keep watch