Without her sex tape launch into fame there might not have been a Keeping up with the Kardashians to keep up with.
This puts them at a huge disadvantage as they struggle to keep up.
But she says students also have strong motivators to keep up with the classes.
They know they need to keep up, and people remember how they look, not what they say.
Mailbox enables me to keep up with the constant barrage of email, making sure that nothing goes unseen.
Your aunt must have dainties to tempt her appetite and so keep up her strength.
He admitted that we could outsail him, for he had done his best to keep up with the Sylvania.
Because it would be a kind of romantic deceit that he'd better not keep up.
I like to keep up the name, otherwise I'm inclined to give myself away.
We tried to keep up each other's spirits and were very busy hiding things.
late Old English cepan "to seize, hold," also "to observe," from Proto-Germanic *kopijanan, but with no certain connection to other languages. It possibly is related to Old English capian "to look," from Proto-Germanic *kap- (cepan was used c.1000 to render Latin observare), which would make the basic sense "to keep an eye on."
The word prob. belongs primarily to the vulgar and non-literary stratum of the language; but it comes up suddenly into literary use c.1000, and that in many senses, indicating considerable previous development. [OED]Sense of "preserve, maintain" is from mid-14c. Meaning "to maintain in proper order" is from 1550s; meaning "financially support and privately control" (usually in reference to mistresses) is from 1540s. Related: Kept; keeping.
mid-13c., "care or heed in watching," from keep (v.). Meaning "innermost stronghold of a tower" is from 1580s, perhaps a translation of Italian tenazza, with a notion of "that which keeps" (someone or something); the sense of "food required to keep a person or animal" is attested from 1801. For keeps "completely, for good" is American English colloquial, from 1861.