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pluck

/plʌk/ · noun

Meaning

  1. An instance of plucking.
  2. The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
  3. Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
  4. Cheap wine.
  5. To pull something sharply; to pull something out
  6. To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
  7. To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
  8. To remove feathers from a bird.
  9. To rob, fleece, steal forcibly
  10. To play a string instrument pizzicato.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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