A person who performs in a public place for money that passers-by choose to give — a guitarist outside a station, a singer in a shopping street, someone doing magic tricks in a park with a hat on the ground. The word is for the PERSON; what they do is 'busking' and the verb is 'to busk'. It is a common, ordinary word in Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Americans usually understand it but often say 'street performer' or 'street musician' instead. There is no insult in it. Calling someone a busker is simply naming what they do, and in many cities buskers audition or get licences for the best spots. Most often a busker is a musician, but the word stretches to cover any street act — dancers, jugglers, living statues, magicians.

街頭藝人、街頭表演者（台灣的「街頭藝人」證照制度指的就是這種人）