pluck
- Verb. (transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out.
- Verb. (transitive, music) To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
- Verb. (transitive) To remove feathers from a bird.
- Verb. (transitive) To rob, fleece, steal forcibly.
- Verb. (transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.
- Verb. (intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.
- Noun. An instance of plucking.
- Noun. The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
- Noun. Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
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