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busker
[ buhs-ker ]
noun
- someone who performs on the street or in a public place, especially for money:
Buskers staked out small areas on the boardwalk to serenade the crowd with old-fashioned favorites and newfangled hits.
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Origin of busker1
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Example Sentences
The senator from Texas and the anarchist busker from New York City have a lot more in common than you might expect.
After a stopover in Paris—she briefly worked as a subway busker, singing in Arabic for tips—Grout returned to Morocco.
Busker, a man who sings or performs in a public-house; an itinerant.
As the latter had said, the girl was sleeping still, and Mrs. Busker saw that her position had not changed by a hair's breadth.
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