pluck

pluck is a 5-letter English word with 18 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To pull; to draw. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 17 · 18 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To pull; to draw.
2. transitive verb. Especially, to pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off or out from something, with a twitch; to twitch; also, to gather, to pick; as, to pluck feathers from a fowl; to pluck hair or wool from a skin; to pluck grapes.
3. transitive verb. To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl.
4. transitive verb. To reject at an examination for degrees.
5. intransitive verb. To make a motion of pulling or twitching; -- usually with at; as, to pluck at one's gown.
6. noun. The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch.
7. noun. The heart, liver, and lights of an animal.
8. noun. Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude.
9. noun. The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college. See Pluck, v. t., 4.
10. transitive verb. The lyrie.
11. noun. the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord
12. noun. the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury

    Synonyms: gutsiness, pluckiness

13. verb. look for and gather

    "pick mushrooms"

    "pick flowers"

    Synonyms: cull, pick

14. verb. strip of feathers

    "pull a chicken"

    "pluck the capon"

    Synonyms: deplumate, deplume, displume, pull, tear

15. verb. pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion

    "he plucked the strings of his mandolin"

    Synonyms: pick, plunk

16. verb. pull or pull out sharply

    "pluck the flowers off the bush"

    Synonyms: tweak

17. verb. rip off; ask an unreasonable price

    Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, plume, rob, soak, surcharge

18. verb. sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity

    Synonyms: hustle, roll

Synonyms

gutsiness, pluckiness, cull, pick, deplumate, deplume, displume, pull, tear, plunk, tweak, fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, plume, rob, soak, surcharge, hustle, roll

Common word forms

plucks, plucked, plucker, plucking, pluckless

Words from these letters

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