busker

chiefly British

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Recent Examples of busker Still, the city’s demographic transformation has led many to lament its fading identity as a place of street buskers and a cross-dressing, homeless mayoral candidate. J. David Goodman, New York Times, 13 May 2025 The musical is based on the 2007 film about a lonely busker in Belfast, Ireland, who finds musical and romantic harmony with an immigrant woman from the Czech Republic. San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2025 So off Sheeran goes, criss-crossing the world, jamming with musicians, playing in pubs, essentially playing the role of the world’s most famous busker, making the ordinary seem grand and the grand seem ordinary. Andrew R. Chow, Time, 16 Apr. 2025 Two of the buskers — Ruby Friedman from Portland and Ilana Katz Katz from Boston — will have come a long way to play less than a half-hour set that day. Chris Willman, Variety, 10 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for busker
Recent Examples of Synonyms for busker
trouper
Noun
  • The pair have been good, loyal troupers while the S.S. Monfort caught fire, then sank.
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 19 June 2025
  • The cost and the inspiration Carol, it should be noted, is a trouper.
    Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 27 Oct. 2024

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“Busker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/busker. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.

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