pluck
IPA: pɫˈʌk
noun
- An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.
- The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
- (informal, figurative, uncountable) Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, uncountable) Cheap wine.
verb
- (transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out
- (transitive) To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
- (transitive, music) To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
- (transitive) To remove feathers from a bird.
- (transitive, now rare) To rob, steal from; to cheat or swindle (someone).
- (transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.
- (intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.
- (UK, university slang, transitive, 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.
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Examples of "pluck" in Sentences
- They pluck the buds in the fields.
- When is the best time to pluck your eyebrows
- Are the geese and ducks happy about being plucked
- When you pluck the instrument, the string vibrates.
- The trigger is plucked with the tip of the index finger.
- All the energy is provided by the plucking of the string.
- Many producers of the fibre pluck the fur of these breeds.
- The right hand is used in plucking or stromping the strings.
- On string instruments, plucking the strings is called pizzicato.
- Angels of wrath will pluck up the wicked as tares for the fires.