Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A strolling singer, player, ballad-seller, or the like. See busk, 4.
Wiktionary
- n. New Zealand, UK, Canada A person who makes money by passing the hat (soliciting donations) while entertaining the public (often by playing a musical instrument) on the streets or in other public area such as a park or market.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Chiefly British a person who entertains people for money in public places (as by singing or dancing).
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person who entertains people for money in public places (as by singing or dancing), usually while asking for money
Etymologies
- From busk + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I just watched the fabulous Irish film Once, about a Dublin busker and his unrequited love for a Czech-Irish piano player.”
“A busker is a street performer that makes a living from entertaining people.”
“The busker was a tall young man, built like a linebacker.”
“And if somebody does demand a license, you know, and gets it, like the industrial-strength performers, I set up a non-sprinkling trust called the busker's fund.”
“I thought, * Well, being a busker was a good idea. ”
“DW: I think for my new solo record, I took an idea from Live At The Pantages, actually, because I'm considering having one disk of busker versions with just one instrument and me, and then a second disk of full on band recording.”
“I had been touring for about two years and I did about half of my shows solo, busker style -- just with an acoustic guitar -- and I did about half my shows with a full band, which was a crew of my friends from Minneapolis.”
“I was the homeless, home-schooled, half-blood busker of Hell's Kitchen.”
“Two years ago, Glen Hansard, singer/guitarist for the Irish group The Frames, and Markéta Irglová, a teenaged classical pianist from the Czech Republic, starred in a small independent film about a busker (like Hansard himself) and an immigrant flower seller on the streets of Dublin.”
“Two years ago, Glen Hansard, singer/guitarist for the Irish group The Frames, and Markéta Irglová, a teenaged classical pianist from the Czech Republic, starred in a small independent film about a busker (like Hansard himself) and an immigrant flower seller on the ...”
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