Definition of "plucked" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of pluck. (verb)
• Having had these items removed by plucking. (adjective)
• Played by plucking. (adjective)
• Having courage and spirit; plucky. (adjective)

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• "Freakonomics or a title plucked from the bestseller's list."
• "I understand that the first episode in the new season is not actually kind of a plucked from the crowd person, but it's actually a celebrity."
• "But if your 'story' is correct; that there is a huge supply of unskilled peasants who could be plucked from the farm and put behind idiot-proof machines then there should be no middle class."