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1.nounAn instance of plucking."Those tiny birds are hardly worth the tedious pluck."
2.nounThe lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
3.nounGuts, nerve, fortitude or persistence."He didn't get far with the attempt, but you have to admire his pluck."
4.nounCheap wine.
5.verbTo pull something sharply; to pull something out"She plucked the phone from her bag and dialled."
6.verbTo take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
7.verbTo gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc."Whereas a piano strikes the string, a harpsichord plucks it."
8.verbTo remove feathers from a bird.
9.verbTo rob, fleece, steal forcibly"The horny highwayman plucked his victims to their underwear, or attractive ones all the way."
10.verbTo play a string instrument pizzicato."Plucking a bow instrument may cause a string to break."
11.verbTo pull or twitch sharply."to pluck at somebody's sleeve"
12.verb(university slang) To be rejected after failing an examination for a degree.
13.verbOf a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.