Definitions for pluck

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Spelling: [pluhk]

IPA: /plʌk/

Pluck is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 41 anagrams from letters in pluck (cklpu).

Definitions for pluck

noun

1. act of plucking; a tug.
2. the heart, liver, and lungs, especially of an animal used for food.
3. courage or resolution in the face of difficulties.

Verb phrases

1. pluck up, to eradicate; uproot. to summon up one's courage; rouse one's spirits:

verb (used with object)

1. to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers, feathers, etc.:
2. to give a pull at; grasp:
3. to pull with sudden force or with a jerk.
4. to pull or move by force (often followed by away, off, or out).
5. to remove the feathers, hair, etc., from by pulling:
6. Slang. to rob, plunder, or fleece.
7. to sound (the strings of a musical instrument) by pulling at them with the fingers or a plectrum.

verb (used without object)

1. to pull or tug sharply (often followed by at).
2. to snatch (often followed by at).

Origin of pluck

before 1000; Middle English plukken (v.), Old English pluccian, cognate with Middle Low German plucken; akin to Dutch plukken, German pflücken

Examples for pluck

Rima was not there to pluck the rage from my heart and save his evil life.

So obviously the Obama campaign will be able to pluck many counter-examples from its file and probably fight this one to a draw.

The human urge to pluck a string and make music goes back many millennia.

I pluck the daisies as they grow, and take them home,' said the old woman after a short silence. '

Why should you aspire to pluck the flower which has grown up amongst us?

Then you have to do the best you can, and prove the pluck that is in you.

The easiest thing would be to pluck another exiled oligarch out of the sin bin.

Cut off my arm and pluck out my eye, so that the other may be better.

pluck a pebble from a mountain and pretend the mountain is gone.

Now I must be permitted to celebrate by a little the pluck of Dick.