Clues for the word "PLUCK"
We've had 31 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 42 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on December 02, 2025.
Definition of pluck
- v. t. - To pull; to draw.
- v. t. - Especially, to pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off or out from something, with a twitch; to twitch; also, to gather, to pick; as, to pluck feathers from a fowl; to pluck hair or wool from a skin; to pluck grapes.
- v. t. - To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl.
- v. t. - To reject at an examination for degrees.
- v. i. - To make a motion of pulling or twitching; -- usually with at; as, to pluck at one's gown.
- n. - The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch.
- n. - The heart, liver, and lights of an animal.
- n. - Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude.
- n. - The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college. See Pluck, v. t., 4.
- v. t. - The lyrie.
Referring Clues
- Play pizzicato
- Courage
- True grit
- Get down?
- Grit
- Gritty quality
- Moxie
- Pull strings
- Spirit
- Neaten eyebrows
- Use tweezers
- Yank out
- Remove feathers
- Deplume, in a way
- Nerve
- Courage is needed to remove feathers
- Make a chicken go bald?
- Bass-playing move
- Pull lightly but sharply
- Might do it to jazz bass note
- Courage - play a harp
- Courage or sheer good fortune, on the quiet
- Courage - defeather
- Play a guitar - prepare a chicken for the pot
- Pull a guitar string - courage
- Strip a 17, say - a 17 won't have it?
- Pull guitar strings
- The courage to keep harping?
- Fiddle with a ukulele?
- Pull off
- Gumption
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 02, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 28, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 25, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 20, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 01, 2023
- New York Times - March 02, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - September 20, 2017
- Guardian Quick - April 10, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 04, 2017
- Guardian Quick - December 29, 2016
- Rock n Roll Crossword - January 17, 2016
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - December 25, 2015
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 10, 2015
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 27, 2015
- USA Today - June 27, 2014
- Guardian Prize - May 10, 2014
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - December 17, 2013
- Rock n Roll Crossword - July 07, 2013
- Family Time - February 25, 2013
- Universal - October 04, 2012
- Netword - July 11, 2012
- USA Today - March 22, 2012
- Washington Post - October 18, 2011
- Guardian Quick - March 12, 2010
- Guardian Quick - January 25, 2010
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 20, 2010
- Universal - April 11, 2009
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 17, 2009
- And in 12 more crossword puzzles...