Sekirov Dictionary

pluck

/plʌk/

verb 9
noun 4
forms 7
phrases 2

verb9

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To pull something sharply; to pull something out
- She plucked the phone from her bag and dialled.
To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
To remove feathers from (a bird).
To pull or twitch sharply.
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To play (a single string on a musical instrument) by pulling and then releasing it, such as on a guitar.
- Whereas a piano strikes the string, a harpsichord plucks it.
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To play a string instrument pizzicato.
- Plucking a bow instrument may cause a string to break.
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(UK) To reject (a student) after they fail an examination for a degree.
- [A]mong men likely to be plucked are these for the most part. He that hath no friends, he that hath many friends […]. — 1835
Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
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(no longer used) To rob, steal from; to cheat or swindle (someone).
- Indeed they seem to consider foreigners as strangers whom they should never see again, and might fairly pluck. — 1796

noun4

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An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.
- Those tiny birds are hardly worth the tedious pluck.
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(informal, figurative) Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
- He didn't get far with the attempt, but you have to admire his pluck.
The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
(slang) Cheap wine.

forms

pluck'd · plucked · pluckt · plucking · plucketh · plucks · pluckest

Phrases with pluck

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