busk
verb (used without object)
to entertain by dancing, singing, reciting, juggling, etc., on the street or in a public place.
busks
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present tense formof busk (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Caitlin, who is now 19, wrote the music in her bedroom and often busks in Glasgow city centre.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2021
Acosta Escobedo busks around the city during the week and wasn’t about to take election day off.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2020
Between gigs, he busks, and the tips he collects make up an important part of his income, he says.
From Washington Post
Now he's a homeless schizophrenic, but he nourishes the hope of playing at Walt Disney Music Hall, the Frank Gehry building not far from where he busks for quarters.
From Time Magazine Archive
They’re no herd’s ballats, Maro’s catches; Squire Pope but busks his skinklin patches O’ heathen tatters; I pass by hunders, nameless wretches, That ape their betters.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
