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busk  (bsk)
intr.v. busked, busk·ing, busks
To play music or perform entertainment in a public place, usually while soliciting money.
[Earlier, to be an itinerant performer, probably from busk, to go about seeking, cruise as a pirate, perhaps from obsolete French busquer, to prowl, from Italian buscare, to prowl, or Spanish buscar, to seek, from Old Spanish boscar.]
busker n.
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Verb1.busk - play music in a public place and solicit money for it; "three young men were busking in the plaza"
play - play on an instrument; "The band played all night long"


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And interviews with a posse of street buskers shed light on the current states of art and society.
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On view in the back gallery was an eight-minute video in which young subway buskers idle around a pair of overturned plastic buckets while Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring" (1944) is heard on the sound track.
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Needing to make a living, Nick thinks he has what it takes to be a still performer and puts together the persona of Mozart, falling in with the other buskers, including the beautiful Swan, who make a living as human statues.
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