Usually means: Perform music publicly for money.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word Busk:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. busk: Merriam-Webster
  2. busk, busk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. busk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. busk: Collins English Dictionary
  5. busk: Vocabulary.com
  6. Busk, busk: Wordnik
  7. busk: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Busk, busk: Wiktionary
  9. busk: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. busk: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Busk, busk: Dictionary.com
  12. busk (n.), busk (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Busk (disambiguation), Busk: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Busk: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. busk: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Busk: Rhymezone
  17. Busk: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. busk: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. busk: FreeDictionary.org
  20. busk: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. busk: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. busk: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BUSK: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. busk, busk: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. busk: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dictionary of Corset-related Words and Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Busk)

verb:  (intransitive) To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To sell articles such as obscene books in public houses etc.
verb:  (nautical) To tack, cruise about.
noun:  A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.
noun:  (by extension) A corset.
noun:  (obsolete) A kind of linen.
verb:  (transitive, Northern England, Scotland) To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.
verb:  (Northern England, Scotland) To go; to direct one's course.
noun:  A feast of first fruits among the Creek tribe of Native Americans, celebrated when the corn is ripe enough to be eaten.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A city in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine

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