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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
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