pluck

IPA: pɫˈʌk

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.

(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.

Examples of "pluck" in Sentences

And indeed, much pluck is roused in a dauntless fashion in space.
These I would pluck from the plants, pinching them off with my thumb nail.
A pig's "pluck" -- _i. e._, the "lights," or lungs, with the windpipe attached.
But of march he knows which there is no heal to "pluck from a mental stop a rooted sorrow."
Jennifer, you know as well as I that hardy pluck is not what San Miguel Gringos are made of.
September 18, 2007 southern style big boys~ pluck from the vine, slice thinly sprinkle with sugar and salt
His words set me thinking, and I had to recognise, rather bitterly, that what I call pluck did not form a great part of my birthright.
After the struggle at the end of the centre, when I had to knit hundreds of stitches (literally) for every one I was allowed to pluck from the border, it’s a great pleasure to be steaming along so comparatively fast.
We fatuously hoped that we might pluck from the human tragedy itself a consciousness of a common destiny which should bring its own healing, that we might extract from life's very misfortunes a power of coöperation which should be effective against them.