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busker

UK/ˈbʌskə/US/ˈbʌskɚ/
nounC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechleans written

Other forms: buskers

A busker is the musician playing on the street for coins in a hat. A busker on the bridge.

Some cities audition them, and a pitch in a good station is worth queueing for. A busker learns quickly which four songs pay and plays them all day.

Safa Abdul Rasul · CC BY-SA 3.0

Definitions of busker

  1. 1nounbuskerThe musician playing on the street for coins in a hat.C1

    “The busker outside the station made more than the shop did.”

busker is a musician.

Also accepted in games: street performer

Where it comes from

  1. Spanish

    buscar

  2. French

    busquer

  3. English

    busk

  4. English, today

    busker

From busk + -er. busk Apparently from French busquer or Spanish buscar.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in In the City

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busker in the wild

  • People engaging in this practice are called street performers or buskers.

    Street performance

  • The show follows a busker going from the streets to stardom as well as canvassing the pitfalls of the entertainment industry for women.

    Buskers and Angels

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the buscar family

buskerbusk

busker — used too rare to measure · point at the bar for the others