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  • noun Alternative spelling of keepie-uppie.

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Examples

  • The Brazil striker eventually popped the question, while Milene broke the world keepy-uppy record, gave birth to baby Ronald "My wife and I eat a lot at McDonald's so we chose Ronald," explained the toothy one and was selected for Brazil's 2003 women's World Cup campaign.

    Do Tottenham and Fulham have to play in the Europa League? | The Knowledge 2011

  • "As if England played Argentina at Wembley, went back the next week to play them at five-a-side, and then took them on at keepy-uppy."

    Why it was all or nothing for Rory McIlroy at the Masters 2011

  • Meanwhile, a top-flight game had to be abandoned in the final minute when a player was hounded off the field by opponents after a blasé spell of playing keepy-uppy.

    Which football teams have been referenced on album covers? | The Knowledge 2011

  • Meanwhile, a top-flight game had to be abandoned in the final minute when a player was hounded off the field by opponents after a blasé spell of playing keepy-uppy.

    Which football teams have been referenced on album covers? | The Knowledge 2011

  • At the end, viewers are urged to go to a website, www. spotsvstripes.com, to join a team and compete in any real-life game they like – from tiddlywinks to crazy golf and keepy-uppy – and to build up national totals online for each side.

    Cadbury set to reveal 2012 Olympics sponsorship ads 2010

  • Whether it is his balls all padded up by Armani, or him playing keepy-uppy in 'urban' shorts in the Brazilian surf, or schmoozing among other celebrities.

    Archive 2008-02-01 ROB McGIBBON 2008

  • Ping Pong is just a simple game of keepy-uppy with a table tennis bat and a table tennis ball.

    MySpace Trawl – Ping Pong Bitches 2008

  • Whether it is his balls all padded up by Armani, or him playing keepy-uppy in 'urban' shorts in the Brazilian surf, or schmoozing among other celebrities.

    Bye, bye, Beckham. For now . . . ROB McGIBBON 2008

  • In two days time the blasted thing will be signed - before national parliaments get to read it - and I think that perhaps that is more important than a bunch of overpaid men with stupid haircuts and who will make them run around the pitch and do keepy-uppy.

    Is there more to life than shoes? 2007

  • In two days time the blasted thing will be signed - before national parliaments get to read it - and I think that perhaps that is more important than a bunch of overpaid men with stupid haircuts and who will make them run around the pitch and do keepy-uppy.

    Archive 2007-12-01 2007

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