Did You Know There is a Site Containing Internet Slang?
By Marsha
@MarshaMusselman (38657)
Midland, Michigan
March 23, 2017 8:04am CST
I was just reading a post by another member (Paljas) that was suggested to me by Inlemay. In it he talks about 'busking'. I've never heard of that before and although maybe I could figure it out by the context, I wouldn't really know for sure. So I searched it out. I found the website shown below.
I look up words unknown to me, but will usually find them on Dictionary.com or wikipedia or something most of us have known before. This may be another site I will bookmark. I don't know how many terms I'd find only there, but one never knows.
I'm planning on writing another in my knee surgery series, but this site was a surprise and I thought it was worth a mention.
After checking dictionary.com it says that it's chiefly used in Britain and also Canada. It sounds like it's a foreign use for the US even though people have done that long ago. Nowadays when you find someone doing that in the streets it's normally because they're hoping to get money if they are homeless.
This Internet Slang page is designed to explain what the meaning of BUSKING is. The slang word / acronym / abbreviation BUSKING means... . Internet Slang. A list of common slang words, acronyms and abbreviations as used in websites, ICQ chat rooms, blogs,
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@MALUSE (69413)
• Germany
23 Mar 17
I know that such sites exist and have occasionally checked something on them. Yet, I'm surprised to see the term 'busking' in this context. I've known it for ages. I can't understand why it's under 'internet slang'. I learnt it in London where one can see buskers in tube stations. I saw them long before the internet was invented.
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@MarshaMusselman (38657)
• Midland, Michigan
23 Mar 17
What context was used for it back then?
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@MALUSE (69413)
• Germany
23 Mar 17
@MarshaMusselman I must say that I don't understand the question. There was no context.
I checked the link from your post. It says:
The Meaning of BUSKING
BUSKING means "Playing music in public for money"
And that's exactly what it is.
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@MarshaMusselman (38657)
• Midland, Michigan
23 Mar 17
@MALUSE Okay I misunderstood what you wrote before, which seems a bit different now. Maybe you made it plainer? I thought you meant thirty years ago it was used in a different context than the definition given on that site.
Have you heard of it in these interim years between when you heard it before and then since the internet's been around. I've never heard the term, but maybe it was used more on your side of the pond? It doesn't matter either way.
@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
28 Mar 17
I have heard this used before it is a street entertainer. It can be at the subway or in London at Covent Garden.
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@MarshaMusselman (38657)
• Midland, Michigan
30 Mar 17
Have you been to London before, Iz? It appears that it's only our country that hasn't heard this term before which is very odd to me that even Canada is familiar with using it too.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
30 Mar 17
@MarshaMusselman I have been to London more than 20 times so I am rather familiar with English terms.
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@MarshaMusselman (38657)
• Midland, Michigan
31 Mar 17
@BelleStarr Well, that's amazing and cool that you've been there that often. Did your husband have a job where he traveled a lot? We have a big, well-known factory in our town and many of their employees not only travel a lot but actually take their families to live in other countries for five year stints.
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@MarshaMusselman (38657)
• Midland, Michigan
30 Mar 17
It appears it's a word using in your country, Marlina and also Europe and possibly all other nations other than the US for some reason. With America being a melting pot of all nationalities I'm surprised it never surfaced here before.
@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
23 Mar 17
So what is the term where you are for the guy or gal standing near the steps to the subway, hat on sidewalk for coins, playing a jig on a violin or blowing out a thumping tune on the saxophone...?
That perfectly describes a busker to me, has done since I was a nipper...
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@MarshaMusselman (38657)
• Midland, Michigan
23 Mar 17
We never had a term for that here in the USA. Otherwise, I'd not even thought to look it up. It sounds like that term has been around for twenty to thirty years if not longer. If we ever see anyone doing that here, we'd just mention exactly that to anyone we'd tell. If I said that word around here people would think I was making up a word.
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@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
23 Mar 17
@MarshaMusselman Two nations divided by a common language 
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@MarshaMusselman (38657)
• Midland, Michigan
23 Mar 17
I think we may be the only country that's never used that term before. Weird, huh?
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@DianneN (246838)
• United States
23 Mar 17
@MarshaMusselman Yes, a bit strange.
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@MarshaMusselman (38657)
• Midland, Michigan
24 Mar 17
It's used everywhere but in our country it seems for those that play music on street corners and similar places for money. In Canada that actually have festivals known something like buskivals.
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@just4him (306236)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
24 Mar 17
@MarshaMusselman That's interesting. I would imagine you would hear a lot of good music that way.
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@patgalca (18181)
• Orangeville, Ontario
23 Mar 17
Busking has been around for a long time. It goes way back. I'm not sure when the actual term came into being but it has been around for a good while. There are all sorts of festivals called Buskerfest. This term has been around before the internet though, so I hardly think it is an internet slang.
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@MarshaMusselman (38657)
• Midland, Michigan
23 Mar 17
That's what M. L. just informed me. Maybe I need to do a bit of research on the term, but another day.
It may be worth it for me to just see what types of words it's given the term slang for too because maybe it's just taking normal words and putting it into that slot. The odd thing to me is that that particular site showed up before any of the normal sites we'd normally cater to.
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@MarshaMusselman (38657)
• Midland, Michigan
23 Mar 17
Yes, it appears it's not been used here in America before, so that's why I wasn't familiar with it. Maybe it's not been as common of a word or term in the past number of years and that's why it was labeled as such or that particular dictionary didn't do it's homework well enough to determine it wasn't really slang after all.
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@MarshaMusselman (38657)
• Midland, Michigan
26 Mar 17
It appears to be a Canadian and European term. Non of us here in the US have heard it before, unless someone happens to spend a lot of time overseas, possibly.
@jillybean1222 (6408)
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24 Mar 17
I've heard of a similar site, but now I can't think of its name.
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