muso
Britishnoun
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derogatory a musician, esp a pop musician, regarded as being overconcerned with technique rather than musical content or expression
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any musician, esp a professional one
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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
Two people answered: the first was exactly the kind of identikit sleeveless-heavy-metal-T-shirted muso we’d hoped to avoid, and the second was a boy called Bernard Butler.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 25, 2018
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
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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