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General dictionaries General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. pluck: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. pluck: V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary [home, info]
  3. pluck: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  4. pluck: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
  5. pluck: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  6. Pluck, pluck: Wordnik [home, info]
  7. pluck: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  8. Pluck: Wiktionary [home, info]
  9. pluck: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  10. pluck: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  11. pluck: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  12. pluck: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  13. pluck (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  14. pluck: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  15. pluck: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  16. pluck: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
  17. P.L.U.C.K, Pluck: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  18. pluck: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
  19. Pluck: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  20. pluck: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  21. pluck: Rhymezone [home, info]
  22. pluck: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  23. pluck: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  24. Pluck: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
  25. Pluck: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
  26. pluck: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  27. pluck: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  28. pluck: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  29. pluck: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  30. pluck: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pluck: Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pluck: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pluck: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pluck: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  2. pluck: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PLUCK: Acronym Finder [home, info]
  2. pluck: Idioms [home, info]

Quick definitions (pluck)

noun:  the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord
noun:  the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury
verb:  strip of feathers ("Pluck the capon")
verb:  pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion ("He plucked the strings of his mandolin")
verb:  pull or pull out sharply ("Pluck the flowers off the bush")
verb:  sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
verb:  look for and gather
verb:  rip off; ask an unreasonable price
name:  A surname (very rare: popularity rank in the U.S.: #49966)

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Phrases that include pluck:   to pluck down, to pluck off, pluck with tweezers, pyke and pluck

Words similar to pluck:   cull, deplumate, deplume, displume, fleece, gazump, gutsiness, hook, hustle, overcharge, pick, plucked, plucker, pluckiness, plucking, plume, plunk, pull, rob, roll, more...


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