Usually means: Maintain pace with others, activities.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word keep up:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. keep up: Merriam-Webster
  2. keep up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. keep up: Collins English Dictionary
  4. keep up: Vocabulary.com
  5. keep-up: Wordnik
  6. keep (sth) up, keep up, keep up (with sb/sth): Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. keep up: Wiktionary
  8. keep up: Dictionary.com
  9. Keep Up (EP), Keep Up (KSI song), Keep Up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. keep up: Rhymezone
  11. Keep Up: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  12. keep up: FreeDictionary.org
  13. keep up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. keep up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. keep up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. keep up: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. keep up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. keep up: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. keep up: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (keep up)

verb:  (transitive) To maintain; to preserve; to prevent from deteriorating or falling.
verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) To continue with (work, etc).
verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic) To stay even or ahead.
verb:  To ensure that one remains well-informed about something.
verb:  To prevent someone from going to bed or to sleep
verb:  (obsolete, printing) To use capital letters as much as reasonable.

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