1. (music) of a stringed instrument; sounded with the fingers or a plectrum
   "The guitarist's plucked strings created a gentle, acoustic atmosphere"
    
2. Having the feathers removed, as from a pelt or a fowl
   "a plucked chicken"; "a plucked goose"

1. Pull or pull out sharply
   "pluck the flowers off the bush";
   - tweak, pull off, pick off
    
2. Pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
   "he plucked the strings of his mandolin";
   - plunk [informal], pick
    
3. Remove feathers
   "pluck the capon";
   - pull, tear, deplume, deplumate [rare], displume [rare]
    
4. Look for and gather
   "pluck mushrooms";
   - pick, cull
    
5. Remove (a hair or hairs) by pulling it out by the roots, typically with tweezers
   "She plucked her eyebrows to shape them"
    
6. [informal] Charge an excessive or unfair price
   "The street vendor plucked the naive customer";
   - overcharge, soak [informal], surcharge, fleece [informal], rob, skin [informal], rip off [informal], gouge [informal]
    
7. Sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
   "The salesman plucked another customer";
   - hustle [informal], roll

See also: discover, featherless, pick up, pizzicato, unfeathered

Type of: cheat, chisel [informal], collect, draw, garner, gather, pull, pull together, rip [N. Amer, informal], rip off [informal], steal, strip

Antonym: bowed

Encyclopedia: Plucked