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busk 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/bəsk/,
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busked, past tense; busked, past participle; busks, 3rd person singular present; busking, present participle;
  1. Play music or otherwise perform for voluntary donations in the street or in subways
    • - the group began by busking on Philadelphia sidewalks
    • - busking was a real means of living
  2. Improvise

Noun
  1. A stay or stiffening strip for a corset

  1. play music in a public place and solicit money for it; "three young men were busking in the plaza"
  2. A busk (also spelled busque) is the rigid element of a corset placed at the centre front.
  3. The M40 minibus crash occurred on 18 November 1993, just before midnight. It involved a minibus and a motorway maintenance vehicle. ...
  4. A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it; A corset; To tack, to cruise about; To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport
  5. Piece of wood, whalebone, ivory, horn or steel slotted into front of stays to hold the torso erect. The integral front section of c19th corset shaped to control the abdomen, and also its steel stud and eye fastening. ...
  6. A piece of wood or metal used to stiffen the center front of a corset. A solid wooden busk would be used for 16th, 17th, or 18th century corset. A steel busk with fasteners would be used for Victorian corsets.
  7. 1. See busking below. 2. (Scot.) to get up, arise.
  8. made of either metal or the cartilage from the mouth of a whale and was used to reinforce women's stays, much like a corset, e.g., "whalebone busking was sited in Mary's will, which she bequeathed to her sister Anne."
  9. perform (esp. music) for voluntary donations, usually in the street or in subways.
  10. v. To busk is to sit in the street playing an instrument and hoping people will give you money for it. ...
  11. The front closure of many modern corsets, consisting of two halves: one with posts (commonly referred to as the "male" side), and one with flat, semi-circular loops (commonly referred to as the "female" side)
  12. Even the context didn’t give me a clue on this one.
  13. A piece of long triangular shaped wood that was insesrted in a socket in the middle front part of corsets to keep the front as stiff as possible.