Synonym: jerk, pick, pull, tug, yank. Similar words: plucky, pluck up, luck, lucky, luckily, happy-go-lucky, plus, pluto. Meaning: [plʌk] n. 1. the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury 2. the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord. v. 1. pull or pull out sharply 2. sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity 3. rip off; ask an unreasonable price 4. pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion 5. strip of feathers 6. look for and gather.
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3, He is full of pluck.
4, Did you pluck your eyebrows?
5, Caged birds sometimes pluck out their breast feathers.
6, He can't pluck up the courage to leave home.
7, She showed a lot of pluck in standing up to her boss.
8, I shall have to pluck up courage and speak to her about it.
9, She showed a lot of pluck in dealing with the intruders.
10, It took me about two hours to pluck up courage to call.
11, It takes a lot of pluck to stand up to a bully.
12, Peregrine falcons usually pluck the feathers and strip the flesh off their bird prey.
13, It takes a lot of pluck to do what she did.
14, She tried to pluck out some of her grey hairs.
15, It took me ages to summon/pluck up the courage to ask for a promotion.
16, With a few pluck at the string of his banjo,[http://sentencedict.com/pluck.html] everybodyis singing along.
17, You can pluck the strings on a guitar with your fingers or a plectrum.
18, Let me pluck away that piece of thread from your skirt.
19, She could even pluck her eyebrows!
20, The focus is on gallantry, derring-do, honest pluck.
21, But why not pluck up the courage to do what you've always wanted?
22, Do you remember when you bought a chicken and had to pluck it yourself?
23, When you kill a chicken to eat[sentencedict.com], you have to pluck it.
24, Even those passengers who were most distrustful of themselves pluck up amazingly.
25, I'd love to do a parachute jump, but I can't pluck up the/enough courage.
26, Because you can lose your mind staying in two rooms, and so I fix my hair and pluck my eyebrows.
27, Even Isay unbent a little, and grinned at a raven-haired wench when she made a lewd pluck at his staff.
28, Grant continues: It was a case of Southern dash against Northern pluck and endurance....
29, Several of them she had given to Scarlet, stipulating that she must pluck and draw them herself.
30, Reality's raw challenge, especially if it engaged muscle and pluck, was his more favoured companion.