pluck

Definition

  • verb: to pull (something) quickly to remove it
  • verb: to pull or pick off or out
  • synonyms: twitch, pull, spirit

Examples

  • She 'plucks' her eyebrows. [=she regularly removes some of the hairs in her eyebrows to make her eyebrows have a particular shape]

  • We 'plucked' [='chose'] passages at random from the book and read them aloud.

  • Firefighters 'plucked' the child from the top floor of the burning building.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) And from North Shore, Miss Cady Heron. It's Cady. Oh, my God, that's me. Miss Caroline Krafft seriously needed to pluck her eyebrows. Her outfit looked like it was picked out by a blind Sunday school teacher. And she had some -cent lip gloss on her snaggletooth. And that's when I realized, (..)
    2004 Mean Girls