Usually means: Courageous and determined despite odds.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word plucky:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. plucky: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. plucky: Merriam-Webster
  3. plucky: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. plucky: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. plucky: Collins English Dictionary
  6. plucky: Vocabulary.com
  7. Plucky, plucky: Wordnik
  8. plucky: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. plucky: Wiktionary
  10. plucky: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. plucky: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Plucky, plucky: Dictionary.com
  13. plucky: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Plucky: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. plucky: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. plucky: Rhymezone
  17. Plucky: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. plucky: FreeDictionary.org
  19. plucky: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. plucky: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. plucky: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See pluckier as well.)

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adjective:  (informal) Having or showing pluck, courage or spirit in trying circumstances.

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