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1. Traditionally, a musician playing at Ashkenazy Jewish celebrations, mainly life-cycle ones such as weddings and {bar mitzvah] celebrations. In this sense, the type of music being played does not matter. From Yiddish; derived from the Hebrew expression, "kley zemer", meaning, "vessels of song". Pl. "klezmorim"
2. Since the revival of traditional Ashkenazy music in the US in the 1970's, the word has been used to refer to traditional Ashkenazy (mainly secular) music.
1. Although they were poor, my grandparents had a jubilant wedding, with a band of four klezmers playing drum, clarinet, violin, and accordion.
2. For their new album, the klezmer music group researched early recordings by clarinetist David Tarras.
klezmer by haidouk April 10, 2019
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a person who fucks retarded grandmothers and brags about it to other retarded grandmothers
"Why does Omar always smell like prune juice and denture cream?"
"My granny says he's a klezmer."
klezmer by hooleeoh November 28, 2013
Klemmer is a unit of account equal to a million.

Synonym: a million
When I was a kid, a Klemmer was enough to retire on. But with all this central bank money printing, I think I will need at least 3 Klemmers to stop working.
Klemmer by FitzSimmons January 28, 2021

mrs.kezmer 

Mrs.Kezmer would be a mean math teacher ,She would call on you when your hand isn’t raised.
You:I don’t wanna be picked!
Mrs.Kezmer:Ethan answer this question RIGHT NOW!
mrs.kezmer by HMMmMMm Idk November 25, 2019
a prude girl who gets drunk and turns into a slut, but goes back to prudeness once sober again
oh my god mariam is such a klezmar
klezmar by spicy sushi January 25, 2009

Utility beer 

Utility beer is the beer you keep around for the day-to-day moments when beer is a necessity to assist in pedestrian activities (golf, plumbing, yardwork, babysitting, staff meetings, Zoom calls). For the beer snob it is the beer you save for neighbors when they drop in at 3 p.m. on a Tuesday. It is differentiated from the actual high-end beer you save for special events, holidays, and special tastings.
Person 1: Dave, did you bring along those hazy craft IPA's so we could drink while cleaning Lyle's pool?
Person 2: Nope. I just have a bunch of utility beer that Steve dumped on me. Good enough for this. It is only 10:30 a.m.
Utility beer by lakeshore February 1, 2022
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