muso
/ˈmjuːzəʊ
/noun (plural musos) British informal
1A musician, especially one over-concerned with technique: mixing genres allows the muso to show off...
- As part of the concept guest musos and instrumentalists are always welcome.
- For four years she spent her days with the orchestra and her nights playing in clubs, doing recording sessions and working as a session muso.
- It also supports school bands and gives young musicians the chance to perform with more experienced musos.
1.1A keen music fan: prices way beyond the means of average musos...
- Four part harmonies, a production quality that worked your stereo into a sweat and enough influences on display to have your average muso digging through their collection meant that the CD was never far away from a play.
- Ask your average muso and they will say that these boys from Seattle were the Godfathers of Grunge, purveyors of bile-built emotionally charged music of such rare quality that they became instant legends and timeless wonders.
- Live jazz every Thursday night brings in a regular crowd of musos, while great coffee and snacks complete the picture.
Origin
1960s (originally Australian): abbreviation.
Rhymes
- have eyes in the back of one's head
- have eyes like a hawk
- have eyes like saucers
- have got
- have-got
- have (got) a good head on one's shoulders
- have (got) another think coming
- have got it bad (or badly)
- have (got) it in for
- have (got) it in one (to do something)
- have (got) it made
- have (got) no idea
- have (got) nothing on
- have (got) someone's back
- have (got) something on
- have (got) something on the brain
- have (got) something to oneself
- have (got) —— to do with
- have had a drop too much
- have had a good innings
- have had it
- have had it up to here
- have had one's chips
- have had one's (or its) day
- have it