plucked Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb pull or pull out sharply
    tweak; pick off; pluck; pull off.
    • pluck the flowers off the bush
  2. verb sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
    roll; pluck; hustle.
  3. verb rip off; ask an unreasonable price
    fleece; soak; plume; pluck; hook; overcharge; rob; gazump; surcharge.
  4. verb pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
    plunk; pluck; pick.
    • he plucked the strings of his mandolin
  5. verb strip of feathers
    deplumate; pull; tear; pluck; deplume; displume.
    • pull a chicken
    • pluck the capon
  6. verb look for and gather
    cull; pluck; pick.
    • pick mushrooms
    • pick flowers
  7. adjective of a stringed instrument; sounded with the fingers or a plectrum
  8. adjective satellite having the feathers removed, as from a pelt or a fowl
    • a plucked chicken
    • an unfeathered goose

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Plucked adjective
Definitions
  1. Having courage and spirit. R.

Webster 1913