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Keep across

/keep across/  ยท  pronounced with confidence

Principal meanings
EnglishMeaning
Keep across vi phrasal, regional (Siena) 1. To yank someone in despair.
If you keep across the printer one more time, it will quit.
Keep across vi phrasal, regional (Siena) 2. To treat something as Berliners do.
My nonna used to keep across the tomatoes every Sunday.