Definition of busker
chiefly British
: a person who entertains in a public place for donations
- Trending Now: More Trending:
- asylum insubordinate promulgate epochal clemency
- ALL
What's Trending Now
More Trending Words
Recent Examples of busker from the Web
-
The busker — a familiar furry face around Boston — can often be seen performing near T stations, a little amp by his side.
-
But that’s a temporary measure—Marble wants to make these things proficient enough to find their own way around the people and the buskers and the intersections.
-
In what might be the world’s first, London has introduced a way for passers-by to tip buskers with cashless payments.
-
Al convinces them to give up thievery and become buskers, sort of a fez-wearing boy band.
-
Chamber officials originally hoped to have the ursine busker on hand to entertain the crowd at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.
-
The hubbub from the buskers and kids listening to Top 40 music on boomboxes disappeared.
-
Guests will enter the gala at Bowery Street, where a busker and paparazzi will greet them in the parking lot.
-
Oh, the show's producers do their darndest to enliven things with local flavor, indulging brief (and woefully cliched) glimpses of French Quarter buskers, streetcars, steaming gumbo and the like.
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'busker.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
Origin and Etymology of busker
busk, probably from Italian buscare to procure, gain, from Spanish buscar to look for
Other Performing Arts Terms
Seen and Heard
What made you want to look up busker? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible).
