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Word: pluck (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • An instance of plucking
  • Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
  • The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.

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Verb:

  • transitive|music To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
  • intransitive To pull or twitch sharply
  • transitive To play a string instrument pizzicato
  • transitive To pull something sharply; to pull something out
  • transitive To remove feathers from a bird.
  • transitive To rob, fleece, steal forcibly

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