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busk verb3. M17.
[French busquer seek, hunt for, from Italian buscare or Spanish buscar, from Germanic.]
verb intrans. Nautical. Cruise about, tack. Now rare or obsolete. M17.
verb intrans. Look for, seek after. rare. M18.
verb intrans. Play music, or otherwise entertain, for money in public places. Formerly also, peddle goods. Chiefly as busking verbal noun. M19.
verb trans. & intrans. Improvise. slang. M20.
D. Adams He had no idea what he was going to find. He would just have to busk it.
busker noun2 an itinerant musician or actor, esp. one performing in the street M19.