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- Dictionarypluck/plʌk/
verb
- 1. take hold of (something) and quickly remove it from its place: "she plucked a blade of grass" Similar
- 2. quickly or suddenly remove someone from a dangerous or unpleasant situation: "the baby was plucked from a grim orphanage"
noun
- 1. spirited and determined courage: "it must have taken a lot of pluck to walk along a path marked ‘Danger’"
- 2. the heart, liver, and lungs of an animal as food.
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to pull something, especially with a sudden movement, in order to remove it: Caged birds sometimes pluck out their breast feathers. He plucked the letter from/out of my hand, and ran off with it. Do you pluck your eyebrows (= remove some of the hairs from them to give them a better shape)? [ T ]
The meaning of PLUCK is to pull or pick off or out. How to use pluck in a sentence.
9 meanings: 1. to pull off (feathers, fruit, etc) from (a fowl, tree, etc) 2. to pull or tug 3. archaic to pull (something).... Click for more definitions.
Pluck definition: to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers, feathers, etc.. See examples of PLUCK used in a sentence.
To remove or detach by grasping and pulling abruptly with the fingers; pick: pluck a flower; pluck feathers from a chicken.
To pluck is to pick or pull a single item out of many, like a flower or a hair. As a noun, pluck is energy or enthusiasm, even when things are looking grim. Don't pluck only the best cherries off the tree: that's cherry-picking! Before you cook a goose, you need to pluck its feathers.
PLUCK definition: 1. to quickly pull something or someone from the place where they are: 2. to pull all the feathers…. Learn more.
to say a name, number, etc. without thinking about it, especially in answer to a question. I just plucked a figure out of the air and said : ‘Would £1 000 seem reasonable to you?’. pluck up (the) courage (to do something) to make yourself do something even though you are afraid to do it. I finally plucked up the courage to ask her for a date.
pluck meaning, definition, what is pluck: to pull something quickly in order to re...: Learn more.
6 days ago · ( transitive) To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation . ( transitive, music) To play (a single string on a musical instrument) by pulling and then releasing it, such as on a guitar . Whereas a piano strikes the string, a harpsichord plucks it.
