Pluck or plucking may refer to:
- Plucking (hair removal), the removal of hair, fur, or feathers
- Feather-plucking, a behavior in birds
- Plucking post as used by birds of prey to dismember their prey
- Plucking (glaciation), a process related to glaciers
- Pluck (card game), a card game
- Pluck (offal), from the thoracic cavity of livestock
- One of two U.S. Navy ships named USS Pluck
- Pizzicato, a method of playing string instruments
- Pluck (string trio), a comedy musical group
- Pluck (software), cms written in PHP
- P.L.U.C.K., a song by System of a Down
- Pluck (company), an Internet company acquired by Demand Media
Famous quotes containing the word plucking:
“If we didn’t live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I’ve no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we’ll all be plucking chickens for a living.”
—H. Ross Perot (b. 1930)