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busking
Street performance or busking is the act of performing in public places for gratuities. In many countries, the rewards are generally in the form of money but other gratuities such as food, drink or gifts may be given. Street performance is practiced all over the world and dates back to antiquity. People engaging in this practice are called street performers or buskers in the United Kingdom. Outside of New York, buskers is not a term generally used in American English.Performances are anything that people find entertaining, including acrobatics, animal tricks, balloon twisting, caricatures, clowning, comedy, contortions, escapology, dance, singing, fire skills, flea circus, fortune-telling, juggling, magic, mime, living statue, musical performance, one man band, puppeteering, snake charming, storytelling or reciting poetry or prose, street art such as sketching and painting, street theatre, sword swallowing, ventriloquism and washboarding. Buskers may be solo performers or small groups.
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
busking
Piratical cruising; also, used generally, for beating to windward along a coast, or cruising off and on.
Etymology and Origins
Busking
Theatrical slang for an al fresco performance to earn a few coppers. To “go busking on the sands” is the least refined aspect of a Pierrot Entertainment. See “Sock and Buskin.”
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of busking in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of busking in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
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In my experience with busking, the less you think about the money, the better you do, you just put your heart and soul into it and hopefully people will respond.
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