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busk

[ UK /bˈʌsk/ ]
[ US /ˈbəsk/ ]
VERB
  1. play music in a public place and solicit money for it
    three young men were busking in the plaza

How To Use busk In A Sentence

  • The band coalesced in 1998 during a legendary trek across Canada, where the members busked and barnstormed for gas money and food whenever they could.
  • So, the increasingly relaxed attitude of the police has meant that more musicians are now able to do a spot of casual busking in order to make some quick cash.
  • But most of the people in Dundas Square are watching a nearby busker, especially now that he's standing on a 10-foot ladder, juggling knives.
  • He sells records by the lorry load - and commuters in the capital are falling over buskers on every street corner.
  • In France, tragedy was elevated on her loftiest buskin.
  • DW: I think for my new solo record, I took an idea from Live At The Pantages, actually, because I'm considering having one disk of busker versions with just one instrument and me, and then a second disk of full on band recording. Mike Ragogna: Beyond Dirty Dancing & Semisonic : Conversations with Dan Wilson and Franke Previte
  • This is a favourite haunt of buskers and artists, hanging out amid the theatres and restaurants in a manner reminiscent of Paris.
  • In one scene he was busking and putting so much into his singing (aka shouting) that I just thought - wow, he wouldn't last 10 minutes let alone half a day, singing like that on the street, and yes, I know he has busked for real. Swell Season on Boing Boing Video Boing Boing
  • I'll probably make more money busking if I take him along with me.
  • Mr Robinson said he had been horrified to watch the Boxing Day disaster unfold and was desperate to raise money from busking as he could not afford to give any cash himself.
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