pluck
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Synonyms: plunk, cluck, luck, puck, gluck, plack, plock, pruck, kluck, bluck, pluk
Antonyms: plunk, cluck, luck, puck, gluck, plack, plock, pruck, kluck, bluck, pluk
Related words from Datamuse; suggestions, not definitions.
Verb
- {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[pull]] something [[sharp]]ly; to pull something out
- {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[take]] or [[remove]] (someone) [[quickly]] from a particular [[place]] or [[situation]].
- {{lb|en|transitive|music}} To play (a single [[string]] on a [[musical instrument]]) by [[pull]]ing and then [[release|releasing]] it, such as on a [[guitar]].
- {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[remove]] [[feather]]s from (a [[bird]]).
- {{lb|en|transitive|now|rare}} To [[rob]], steal from; to [[cheat]] or [[swindle]] (someone).
- {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[play]] a [[string instrument]] [[pizzicato]].
- {{lb|en|intransitive}} To pull or [[twitch]] sharply.
- {{lb|en|UK|university slang|transitive}} 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.<!--see "plucking" on Wikipedia-->
Noun
- An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.
- The [[lungs]], [[heart]] with [[trachea]] and often [[oesophagus]] removed from [[slaughtered]] animals.
- {{senseid|en|nerve}} {{lb|en|informal|figurative|uncountable}} Guts, [[nerve]], [[fortitude]] or [[persistence]].
- {{lb|en|AAVE|slang|uncountable}} Cheap wine.
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