muso

plural musos

1. AustraliaNew ZealandUKdiminutiveinformalDiminutive of musician.

   Yeah...I probably wouldn't change have changed plans anyway. I'm sure my wife and children will get more out of a family day than if we headed into the big concrete jungle (aka city) to watch a few musos.

   2001 March 5, Gary Meadows, “Darn it!”, in aus.culture.true-blue (Usenet)

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   I don't expect you to understand the hours involved in becoming a talented muso, rehearsing for months, writing a hit, recording the song, marketing the band, pressing the CDs and trying to get airplay / make some record sales... but you should be able to find a similar problem in your work...

   2000 May 5, Justin French, “Heads up, Yes me again Mr m3a Smart mouth”, in alt.music.journalism (Usenet)

   Don't blame the musos. Blame the marketers, A&R men and record company execs. You don't imagine for a moment that musos sought to inflict Bardot, Britney and Christina on an unsuspecting public. Even the producers are only guilty of trying to feed themselves by attempting to write and execute popular songs that appeal to the LCD.

   2001 March 27, Mr Q. Z. Diablo, “[long] will the real goth please stand up”, in aus.culture.gothic (Usenet)

2. AustraliaNew ZealandUKinformalA pretentious music fan.

   It is a badge of pride for musos to say that Spotify’s machine-learning algorithms – when you listen to a track and it recommends things you might also like – don’t cover their cosmopolitan taste.

   2018 October 5, Ben Beaumont-Thomas, Laura Snapes, “Has 10 years of Spotify ruined music?”, in The Guardian

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   'This is how we do it in Lisbon,' he warns with gruff Portuguese annunciation. Immediately the intimate and packed crowd of party-loving young musos submit to the almighty bass quake, squawking synthesisers and furious thrusting rhythms of kuduro, the latest imported urban dance flavour.

   2008 March 23, Jaimie Hodgson, “When kuduro came to town”, in The Observer, →ISSN