(n.) A thin, elastic strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset.
(v. t. & i.) To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.
(v. t. & i.) To go; to direct one's course.
Example Sentences:
(1) But then came a challenge I couldn't turn down – busking outside Camden tube station with Billy Bragg , one of my musical and political heroes, who was happy to tutor and coax me through our favourite playlist.
(2) Raffles hitch-hiked ahead of the troupe, often sleeping rough, to busk for new bookings.
(3) Simply because he is not begging on a street corner (except when he's busking, which he does with glorious chutzpah) or drooling with a spent needle hanging from his arm, you presume he is doing fine.
(4) Get good at busking and later, when you're playing the Pyramid stage, you know you won't be fazed.
(5) A harpist takes a break from busking in a bustling Carmarthen shopping street to discuss two of his great passions: music and politics.
(6) I put on my performance face, threw my head back, and enjoyed myself – but safe in the knowledge that standing beside me on my right hand side was a man with decades of busking experience and a natural affinity with the crowd.
(7) I had always wanted to try busking but found the idea daunting – especially doing it alone.
(8) Updated at 11.10am BST 10.57am BST And now, it's time for Ed Miliband.... Jon Snow is just busking for a moment or two ahead of Ed Miliband coming on to the stage.
(9) "I had to have six frets on my guitar replaced – they were completely worn out from busking to the signing queue.
(10) In Galway, I went out busking on the streets, singing the filthiest, most debauched lyrics I could think of to see if anyone would understand.
(11) You started busking at the age of 15 and developed a street persona called Lippo.
(12) It didn't help that the Sunday before our busking "date", disaster struck; I lost my voice.
(13) The voice When you're busking, you're competing with the noise of the street, the traffic, and you're trying to get the attention of people who are in a hurry.
(14) They were busking and making good money, so Heaton was shocked when he learned they were all quitting to go to university.
(15) In 1968, aged 17, I quit school (in Ontario, Canada) and hitchhiked all over north America, busking and staying with people I met.
(16) We were still in a small room, effectively busking a script, but it was starting to grow.
(17) Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian "So it's OK, for example, to sit around as long as you are in a cafe or in a designated place where certain restful activities such as drinking a frappucino should take place but not activities like busking, protesting or skateboarding.
(18) There were storytellers, drawing lessons, and an area for busking and debating.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Benjamin Zephaniah in Lincolnshire: ‘I miss the multiculturalism of London.’ Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian There’s a wonderful little town where I live and I love the independent shops, old-fashioned sweet shops run by little old ladies, an entertainer on the street just for the sake of it, not necessarily busking.
(20) After six years, I moved back to Canada, busking again and earning enough to pay my rent.
Buss
Definition:
(n.) A kiss; a rude or playful kiss; a smack.
(v. t.) To kiss; esp. to kiss with a smack, or rudely.
(n.) A small strong vessel with two masts and two cabins; -- used in the herring fishery.
Example Sentences:
(1) To assess physiological and psychological states accompanying anabolic-androgenic steroid use, male weight lifters 1) were interviewed regarding their physical training and the patterns and effects of any drug use; 2) completed a written physical and medical history questionnaire, a Profile of Mood States questionnaire, and the Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory; and 3) were physically examined, including a blood sample and urinalysis.
(2) Aggression was measured in terms of number of shocks given, shock intensity, and shock duration in a modified version of the Buss' aggression machine.
(3) If there's one thing this current Lakers squad, mostly assembled by Jerry Buss's son Jim while his father was ailing, has proven, it's that simply acquiring the best available players isn't enough to create a winning team, let alone a championship-caliber one.
(4) Some of these measures appeared to be lifted over the weekend, but as thousands trudged or bussed their way towards Austria and then Germany, the dismal scenes in Hungary will stain one administration’s human rights record – and perhaps the reputation of a nation.
(5) But as with the December vote, independent election monitors and opposition activists presented evidence of widespread falsifications, including ballot stuffing and "carousel voting" – packing vans with voters and bussing them to several polling sites to cast numerous votes.
(6) An experiment was performed to test whether thwarting close to the goal leads to higher levels of frustration and higher levels of aggression than thwarting far from the goal in a slightly modified version of the Buss' "aggression machine."
(7) He has also enlisted in an imaginative scheme, pioneered by the National, in which groups of in-patients are lodged in a specially designed hotel and bussed back each day for treatment.
(8) At one point, a group bussed in by the government smashed plastic chairs and overturned food trays as the campaigners sang and prayed.
(9) Jerry Buss always courted the best players, the big names who could shine in big games, no matter how much money it took to sign them, he transformed cheerleaders into " Lakers Girls " and made the courtisde seats the go-to place for all of the beautiful people to be seen.
(10) They were bussed to a medical centre to undergo treatment, NTV television said.
(11) Austria and Germany threw open their borders to thousands of exhausted refugees on Saturday, bussed to the Hungarian border by a rightwing government that had tried to stop them but was overwhelmed by the sheer numbers reaching Europe’s frontiers.
(12) Three hundred seventy-one male substance-abusing volunteers for drug studies were administered the Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory (B-D).
(13) By the time Austria awoke on Saturday the first refugees had arrived, bussed out of the country overnight by Hungarian authorities happy to be rid of them the minute the Austrian and German governments took the momentous decision to throw open their borders.
(14) The volunteer group arrived early, at 3am, and were de-bussed by the coach company who had estimated a 5am time of arrival.
(15) Civilians were being steadily bussed to regime-held west Aleppo on Wednesday, with hundreds more displaced by fighting that has already driven thousands out of their homes in recent weeks.
(16) [LA Lakers owner] Jerry Buss takes money out of his club.
(17) There were reports, too, that Sunni insurgents have attempted to target convoys of Shia volunteers being bussed to the front lines north of the capital.
(18) Another solution suggested by the OFT is limiting services on certain routes to prevent "over bussing" where bus companies deluge a route with vehicles to shut out competitors.
(19) Twelve manipulation tactics were identified through separate factor analyses of two instruments based on different data sources: Charm, Reason, Coercion, Silent Treatment, Debasement, and Regression (replicating Buss et al., 1987), and Responsibility Invocation, Reciprocity, Monetary Reward, Pleasure Induction, Social Comparison, and Hardball (an amalgam of threats, lies, and violence).
(20) Of course, none of these added attractions would have mattered if the team didn't win, but under Buss's direction, the Lakers were one of the most successful franchises not just in the NBA, but in all of professional sports.