Meaning

• An instance of plucking.

  "Those tiny birds are hardly worth the tedious pluck."

• The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.

• Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.

  "He didn't get far with the attempt, but you have to admire his pluck."

• Cheap wine.

Meaning

• To pull something sharply; to pull something out

  "She plucked the phone from her bag and dialled."

• To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.

• To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.

  "Whereas a piano strikes the string, a harpsichord plucks it."

• To remove feathers from a bird.

• To rob, fleece, steal forcibly

  "The horny highwayman plucked his victims to their underwear, or attractive ones all the way."

• To play a string instrument pizzicato.

  "Plucking a bow instrument may cause a string to break."

• To pull or twitch sharply.

  "to pluck at somebody's sleeve"

• (university slang) To be rejected after failing an examination for a degree.

• Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.