chiefly British
: a person who entertains in a public place for donations
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Sometimes the smallest audiences can have the biggest impact — as was the case with busker Armand Davis.
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Jade Gomez, People.com, 30 Oct. 2024
And toss in that the mountains host countless transient people — from buskers to homeless people to seasonal migrant workers on Christmas tree farms — who have no addresses, and who may not appear in any official totals.
—Michael Graff, Axios, 20 Oct. 2024
Manu Chao first made a splash in the late Nineties with his fantastic debut solo album, Clandestino, the work of a multilingual, post-modern leftist busker whose music seemed to infuse the everything-at-once sonics of Beck’s Odelay with the spirit of Woody Guthrie, Bob Marley, and Joe Strummer.
—Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2024
Unable to dance, she self-medicates with pills bought from a local busker and develops an addiction to painkillers.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Sep. 2024
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Jade Gomez, People.com, 30 Oct. 2024
And toss in that the mountains host countless transient people — from buskers to homeless people to seasonal migrant workers on Christmas tree farms — who have no addresses, and who may not appear in any official totals.
—Michael Graff, Axios, 20 Oct. 2024
Manu Chao first made a splash in the late Nineties with his fantastic debut solo album, Clandestino, the work of a multilingual, post-modern leftist busker whose music seemed to infuse the everything-at-once sonics of Beck’s Odelay with the spirit of Woody Guthrie, Bob Marley, and Joe Strummer.
—Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2024
Unable to dance, she self-medicates with pills bought from a local busker and develops an addiction to painkillers.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Sep. 2024
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“Busker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/busker. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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