pluck🔊

To pull something sharply; to pull something out

To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.

(music) To play (a single string on a musical instrument) by pulling and then releasing it, such as on a guitar.

To remove feathers from (a bird). +

(now rare) To rob, steal from; to cheat or swindle (someone).

To play a string instrument pizzicato.

To pull or twitch sharply.

(UK, university slang, obsolete) To reject (a student) after they fail an examination for a degree.

Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.

An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.

The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.

(informal, figurative) Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.

(African-American Vernacular, slang) Cheap wine. +