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busks

  • present tense form
    of busk (3rd person singular).
    busk
    verb (used without object)
    to entertain by dancing, singing, reciting, juggling, etc., on the street or in a public place.

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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

‘For the Bishop hath spread the King’s banner, And to battle he busks him boun.’

From Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series by Frank Sidgwick

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