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muso

British  
/ ˈmjuːzəʊ /

noun

  1. derogatory a musician, esp a pop musician, regarded as being overconcerned with technique rather than musical content or expression

  2. any musician, esp a professional one

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The 26-year-old muso is this year’s “who?” in the Grammys’ album of the year category.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 8, 2020

Just not if you’re the type of muso who finds best-of lists to be tacky, reflexive rituals that serve only to replicate and reinforce the marketplace’s ugliest, corniest competitive impulses.

From Washington Post Dec. 6, 2019

This year, all eyes are on Tom Hiddleston , who plays an undead underground muso in Jim Jarmusch's crypto-vampire romance Only Lovers Left Alive.

From The Guardian May 14, 2013

Smarty-pants muso Nicolas Jaar took over Radio 1 for a two-hour Essential Mix last week.

From The Guardian May 25, 2012

El sub la tirkestaro la muso kuris sub la liton = Out from under the chest of drawers the mouse ran under the bed.

From The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary by George Cox

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