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keeping up with the joneses

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.36 in modern English

Syllables
keep-ing up with- the jone-ses
IPA
48
Scrabble Score
23
Letters
4
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of keep up with the Joneses

Questions

What does keeping up with the joneses mean?
present participle and gerund of keep up with the Joneses

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