Usually means: Remove quickly with fingers, tweezers.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. pluck: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pluck: Merriam-Webster
  3. pluck: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pluck: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pluck: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pluck: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pluck, pluck: Wordnik
  8. pluck: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pluck: Wiktionary
  10. pluck: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pluck: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pluck: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. pluck: Dictionary.com
  14. pluck (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pluck: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Pluck (card game), Pluck (company): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pluck: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pluck: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pluck: Rhymezone
  20. pluck: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pluck: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Pluck: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. pluck: FreeDictionary.org
  24. pluck: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. pluck: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pluck: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. pluck: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PLUCK: Acronym Finder
  2. pluck: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pluck, pluck, pluck: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. P.L.U.C.K, pluck: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out
verb:  (transitive) To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
verb:  (transitive, music) To play (a single string on a musical instrument) by pulling and then releasing it, such as on a guitar.
verb:  (transitive) To remove feathers from (a bird).
verb:  (transitive, now rare) To rob, steal from; to cheat or swindle (someone).
verb:  (transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.
verb:  (intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.
verb:  (UK, university slang, transitive, obsolete) To reject (a student) after they fail an examination for a degree.
verb:  Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
noun:  An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.
noun:  The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
noun:  (informal, figurative, uncountable) Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
noun:  (African-American Vernacular, slang, uncountable) Cheap wine.

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