The word found after unscrambling plucked means that pull or pull out sharply, sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity, rip off; ask an unreasonable price, pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion, strip of feathers, look for and gather, of a stringed instrument; sounded with the fingers or a plectrum, having the feathers removed, as from a pelt or a fowl, .