TubeTalk Pronunciation

How to pronounce “pluck”

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Pronunciation guide for pluck

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of pluck with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Tea TalkIt essentially gets plucked, sorted, cleaned, if you will.
Definition summary: (transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out

Example 1 of 8

Tea Talk

It essentially gets plucked, sorted, cleaned, if you will.

[Verb]
(transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out
(transitive) To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
(transitive, music) To play (a single string on a musical instrument) by pulling and then releasing it, such as on a guitar.
(transitive) To remove feathers from (a bird).
(transitive, now rare) To rob, steal from; to cheat or swindle (someone).
(transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.
(intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.
(UK, university slang, transitive, obsolete) To reject (a student) after they fail an examination for a degree.
Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
[Noun]
An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.
The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
(informal, figurative, uncountable) Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
(African-American Vernacular, slang, uncountable) Cheap wine.