What is the meaning of enolic form of ketone? How to draw its structure?

Enolic form of a ketone means it contains an alcohol and an ene group. (ene + ol = enol). From ketone they are produced by tautomerism, which is obtained by shifting alpha hydrogen and making the carbonyl as alcoholic group as follows. 

This type of tautomerism is called keto enol tautomerism. 

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