C2 noun #39,378 most common

pluck

UK /plʌk/ | US /plʌk/

An instance of plucking.

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  • (noun) An instance of plucking.
  • (noun) The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
  • (noun) Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun An instance of plucking.
  2. 2
    noun The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
  3. 3
    noun Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
  4. 4
    noun Cheap wine.
  5. 5
    verb To pull something sharply; to pull something out
  6. 6
    verb To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
  7. 7
    verb To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
  8. 8
    verb To remove feathers from a bird.
  9. 9
    verb To rob, fleece, steal forcibly
  10. 10
    verb To play a string instrument pizzicato.
  11. 11
    verb To pull or twitch sharply.
  12. 12
    verb (university slang) To be rejected after failing an examination for a degree.
  13. 13
    verb Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.

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Synonyms

plonk

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