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finders keepers (informal)

Those who find something are entitled to keep it

Main Entry: ↑find

informal used, often humorously, to assert that whoever finds something by chance is entitled to keep it

— used especially in children's speech to say that you can keep what you have found and do not need to give it back to the person who has lost it

Main Entry: ↑finder

finders keepers (losers weepers) — see ↑finder

Main Entry: ↑keeper

finders keepers (losers weepers) — see ↑finder

Main Entry: ↑loser

finders keepers (losers weepers) — see ↑finder

Main Entry: ↑weeper

ˌfinders ˈkeepers idiom

(saying) (often used by children) anyone who finds sth has a right to keep it

Main entry: ↑finder_idiom