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Busker

[BUS-kər]

Part of speech: noun

Origin: Spanish, 17th century

1.

A person who performs music or other entertainment in the street or another public place for monetary donations.

Examples of Busker in a sentence

"The busker outside the restaurant was playing a moving rendition of a Whitney Houston song."

"Shirish put himself through college by performing as a busker with his guitar outside the movie theater downtown."

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