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pluck noun- wine US, 1964
- We went and got some “pluck” (wine) and I told him I was in college. — H. Rap Brown, Die Nigger Die!, p. 24, 1969
- But the brothers passed the pluck, putting the top back on after each sip, and conjectured anyway. — Steve Cannon, Groove, Bang, and Jive Around, p. 154, 1969
- What about China? I missed that runnin’ to the git the pluck. — Odie Hawkins, Ghetto Sketches, p. 81, 1972
- Sid Strove said, watching a huddle of winos in front of an abandoned store nip at pints of strong port combined with sweet sherry in a mixture known as “pluck” — Emmett Grogan, Final Score, p. 157, 1976
- Mr. Chickens, his four super-obedient hens delicately high-stepping around him and his ace, the Spinning Top Dude, stood under the lengthening shadow of a fire escape, just around an alley corner’s edge, trying to defeat the autum evening’s chill with a pluck. — Donald Goines, The Busting Out of an Ordinary Man, p. 47, 1985
- The first time he showed up he was strolling across the grass sipping pluck from a bottle of Thunderbird[.] — Clarence Major, All-Night Visitors, p. 145, 1998
- the recruiting of a prostitute to work for a pimp; a prostitute recruited to work for a pimp US
- While I was ripping and running up and down Hastings trying to catch a pluck from all the whore bars, there was a little girl named Ruth who had been watching me[.] — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 34, 1973
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