verb
- Pull or pull out sharply.
- usage: "pluck the flowers off the bush"
- Sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity.
- Rip off; ask an unreasonable price.
- Pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion.
- usage: "he plucked the strings of his mandolin"
- Strip of feathers.
- usage: "pull a chicken"; "pluck the capon"
- Look for and gather.
- usage: "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers"
adjective
- Of a stringed instrument; sounded with the fingers or a plectrum.
- Having the feathers removed, as from a pelt or a fowl.
- usage: "a plucked chicken"; "an unfeathered goose"
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