Pluck | Mean of pluck in English Dictionary

/ˈplʌk/

• Verb
• to pull (something) quickly to remove it
1. My sister plucked a white hair from my head.
2. The hunter plucked the bird's feathers.
3. plucking petals off/from a flower
4. pluck [=pick] a lemon from the tree
• to remove some or all of the feathers or hairs from (something)
1. They plucked a chicken.
2. She plucks her eyebrows. [=she regularly removes some of the hairs in her eyebrows to make her eyebrows have a particular shape]
• to take (someone or something) away from a place or situation suddenly or by force
1. Firefighters plucked the child from the top floor of the burning building.
2. He'd been plucked from obscurity and thrust into the national spotlight.
3. a cat that was plucked off the city's streets last winter

• to select or take (something) usually from a group, container, or place
1. We plucked [=chose] passages at random from the book and read them aloud.
2. He plucked a stone out of the river.
• to pull and release (a string on a musical instrument) with your fingers in order to make a sound
1. pluck a guitar string
2. pluck on a guitar string
• to play (a guitar, banjo, etc.) by pulling and releasing the strings with your fingers
1. She was softly plucking a banjo.
2. plucking on/at a banjo
• to pull part of (something) with your fingers especially more than once
1. He nervously plucked at the blanket.
• Noun
• a quality that makes you continue trying to do or achieve something that is difficult
1. It takes pluck to do what she did.
2. She showed pluck in getting up on stage.