pluck
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Definitions ofpluck
- An instance of plucking.
Example: "Those tiny birds are hardly worth the tedious pluck."
- The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
- Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
Example: "He didn't get far with the attempt, but you have to admire his pluck."
- Cheap wine.
Synonyms: plonk
- To pull something sharply; to pull something out
Example: "She plucked the phone from her bag and dialled."
- To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
- To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
Example: "Whereas a piano strikes the string, a harpsichord plucks it."
- To remove feathers from a bird.
- To rob, fleece, steal forcibly
Example: "The horny highwayman plucked his victims to their underwear, or attractive ones all the way."
- To play a string instrument pizzicato.
Example: "Plucking a bow instrument may cause a string to break."
- To pull or twitch sharply.
Example: "to pluck at somebody's sleeve"
- (university slang) To be rejected after failing an examination for a degree.
- Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
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