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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

Only Lovers Left Alive is an indulgent, eccentric midnight movie with a great deal of muso musing about vinyl and guitars and cool retro stuff.

From The Guardian • May 24, 2013

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

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 Cox, George

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