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单词 to go busking
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to go busking
2. Originally slang. The action or practice of performing music or some other entertainment in a public place (now esp. in the street) for monetary donations. In early use also: †the peddling of goods in public places (obsolete). Frequently in to go busking.
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busking1861
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street music1770
busking1897
street singing1958
1776 J. Hawkins Gen. Hist. Music V. i. vii. 66 The musicians of his time,..thought themselves disgraced by this practice of his, for which they have a term of reproach not very intelligible; they call it going a-busking.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 215/1 Obtain a livelihood by ‘busking’, as it is technically termed, or, in other words, by offering their goods for sale only at the bars and in the tap-rooms and parlours of taverns.
1860 Cornhill Mag. Sept. 334 Thieves' words and phrases... Selling obscene songs—busking.
1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 206/1 Busking is going into public-houses and playing, and singing, and dancing.
1897 Daily News 21 Sept. 8/3 A highly-accomplished lady..begs for a dress in which to go busking. Busking is the jargon for wandering minstrels—folk who play the perambulating pianos we see in the streets or on the sands.
1910 Pall Mall Mag. Aug. 255/1 Few of the general public are aware of the large number of people who in the summer go ‘busking’, or succeed in earning a more or less satisfactory living by open-air performances of various kinds.
1979 T. Sanchez Up & down with Rolling Stones i. 15 He had survived by busking (singing and begging on street corners).
1994 J. Lydon et al. Rotton v. 66 Busking was a big thing at the time, but it was always those naff hippies with their acoustic guitars.
2001 G. Howard Night Navigation xiii. 152 Doing a lot of busking in the subways, playing his tongue drum, his hat set out for contributions.
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