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busker

[ US /ˈbəskɝ/ ]
[ UK /bˈʌskɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person who entertains people for money in public places (as by singing or dancing), usually while asking for money

How To Use busker In A Sentence

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The success of the performance depends solely on how well the busker can grab and hold a crowd's attention.
  • London's trumpeting busker played the downtown streets and community for many years before giving it up this year.
  • I had been touring for about two years and I did about half of my shows solo, busker style -- just with an acoustic guitar -- and I did about half my shows with a full band, which was a crew of my friends from Minneapolis. Mike Ragogna: Beyond Dirty Dancing & Semisonic : Conversations with Dan Wilson and Franke Previte
  • The busker was a tall young man, built like a linebacker. Spirits White As Lightning
  • A passer-by has taken me for a busker and thrown me 50p. Times, Sunday Times
  • He estimated a crowd of more than 1000 people who were stunned at the drummers, fire twirlers, fashion parades, dancers, puppet shows, a DJ, street performers and buskers.
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