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  1. A strolling singer, player, ballad-seller, or the like. See busk, 4. The words and tune of which I remember hearing from the lips of a busker at Margate. Referee, June 29, 1884. [Encyc. Dict.]

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  • Castle Street there is a wide park-like thoroughfare given over to foot traffic, mercilessly hard stainless steel benches from another age, the occasional tree, and the obligatory busker or three. —  AnalogSFF,November2007
  • He had, he said, taken a good many calls in the course of his life as a busker, and made a good many little speeches of gratitude to a good many audiences. —  Final Curtain - Ngaio Marsh - Roderick Alleyn 14
  • Seeing as many MP3 players come with cheap headphones so frightful that they make LCD Soundsystem sound like a drunk busker, spending a few bob on a decent pair can make a real difference to your sonic pleasure. —  Digital-Lifestyles
  • After threatening to do Do Me Baby (thankfully he doesn't) he takes the psychedelic Raspberry Beret and gives it some impromptu, busker-like love. —  Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk
  • Cyril WAS on the street as a busker before he rise to fame. —  Buy Clothes
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