Pluck or plucking may refer to:
Removal
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Plucking (hair removal)
Plucking or tweezing can mean the process of human hair removal, removing animal hair or a bird's feathers by mechanically pulling the item from the owner's human body, body. In humans, hair removal is done for personal grooming purposes, usuall ...
, the removal of hair, fur, or feathers
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Feather-plucking
Feather-plucking, sometimes termed feather-picking, feather damaging behaviour or pterotillomania, is a Adaptive behavior, maladaptive, behavioural disorder commonly seen in captive birds that chew, bite or pluck their own feathers with their be ...
, a behavior in birds
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Plucking post, as used by birds of prey to dismember their prey
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Plucking (glaciation)
Plucking, also referred to as ''quarrying'', is a Glacier, glacial phenomenon that is responsible for the weathering and erosion of pieces of bedrock, especially large "joint blocks". This occurs in a type of glacier called a "valley glacier". A ...
, a process related to glaciers
Music
* Plucking, the action of playing a
plucked string instrument
Plucked string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by plucking the string (music), strings. Plucking is a way of pulling and releasing the string in such a way as to give it an impulse that causes the string to ...
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Pizzicato
Pizzicato (, ; translated as 'pinched', and sometimes roughly as 'plucked') is a playing technique that involves plucking the strings of a string instrument. The exact technique varies somewhat depending on the type of instrument:
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'', a method of playing string instruments
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"P.L.U.C.K." (song), by System of a Down
Places
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Pluck, Texas, a community in the United States
* Pluck, County Donegal, community served by
Pluck railway station
Other uses
* Pluck or
offal
Offal (), also called variety meats, pluck or organ meats, is the internal organ (anatomy), organs of a butchered animal. Offal may also refer to the by-products of Milling (grinding), milled grains, such as corn or wheat.
Some cultures strong ...
, the internal organs of livestock
* One of two U.S. Navy ships named
USS ''Pluck''
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Pluck (company)
Pluck was an American Internet company based in Austin, Texas, that ran a website since 2005 that offered an RSS reader. The company was acquired by Demand Media
Leaf Group, formerly Demand Media Inc., is an American content company that o ...
, an Internet company acquired by Demand Media
* PLUCK, an
RMITV
RMITV is a not-for-profit, community access television production facility based at RMIT University City Campus in Melbourne, Australia. It is a full member of the Melbourne Community Television Consortium, a not-for-profit consortium that o ...
television series
* Pluck (magazine), British story paper running from 1894 to 1916 under
Amalgamated Press
The Amalgamated Press (AP) was a British newspaper and magazine publishing company founded by journalist and entrepreneur Alfred Harmsworth (1865–1922) in 1901, gathering his many publishing ventures together under one banner. At one point the ...
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Lee Pluck (born 1982), footballer
See also
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Plucky (disambiguation)
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