Definition of "canaries" [canaries]

• Plural form of canary. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of canary. (verb)

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• "The term "canaries" comes from the old practice of placing canaries in cages in underground mines."
• "After more than 20 months of White House insistence that the only useful role for progressive canaries is to keep singing the president's tune, the electoral coal mine is filled with the political equivalent of carbon monoxide and methane."
• "He said that when he grew up he was going to be a merchant, and he had already begun to carry on a trade in canaries and goldfish."