Usually means: Removing hair using tweezers, fingers.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. plucking: Merriam-Webster
  2. plucking: Collins English Dictionary
  3. plucking: Vocabulary.com
  4. Plucking, plucking: Wordnik
  5. plucking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. plucking: Wiktionary
  7. Plucking, plucking: Dictionary.com
  8. plucking: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Plucking (glaciation), Plucking (hair removal): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Plucking: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Plucking: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. plucking: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. plucking: FreeDictionary.org
  14. plucking: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Tea Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plucking: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Plucking (glaciation), plucking: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plucking: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plucking: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Plucking: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (plucking)

noun:  (gerund of pluck) An act in which something is plucked.
noun:  A fragment of something obtained by plucking.
noun:  (printing) The undesirable situation in which printed ink becomes detached from the paper.

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