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keen

adjectiveColloquial

A Australian English slang term. Browse all Australian slang.

What it means

  1. Enthusiastic about a plan; up for it. Used absolutely, with no complement: 'You keen?' 'Yeah, keen.'

In use

  • We're going for a surf, you keen?

  • Keen as, just tell me when.

    Note: 'Keen as' with nothing after it is a distinctively Australasian construction — the comparison is left deliberately unfinished.