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keener /ˈkiːnə(r)/noun1A person who wails or sings in grief for a dead person: a team of five keeners was hired to cry on the way to escort their father to the crematorium...- They spent a total of 1,000 yuan on hiring the keeners, all poor men and women who were mobilized to form a band on their own.
- In the end the keeners stalked the funeral processions screaming and shrieking all the more like vengeful banshees and had to be chased by the priests.
- At times there are echoes of the raw Gaelic keeners who sang the songs of the dispossessed.
2Canadian informal A person who is extremely eager, zealous, or enthusiastic: for the real keeners, tickets can be purchased in advance...- For you keeners out there, "highly active" is classified as 12,500 steps per day.
- If you leave the voting to those keeners who were in line on Tuesday morning, then you might as well get used to not having a vote at all.
- Their eighth full-length album is still in the works, but keeners can get an early listen as they will test driving some new tracks at this gig.
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