An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.

The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.

(informal, figurative, uncountable) Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.

(African-American Vernacular, slang, uncountable) Cheap wine.

(transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out

(transitive) To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.

(transitive, music) To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.

(transitive) To remove feathers from a bird.

(transitive, now rare) To rob, steal from; to cheat or swindle (someone).

(transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.

(intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.

Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.