Definitions for: Pizzicato

[adv] (music) with a light plucking staccato sound
[adj] (of instruments in the violin family) to be plucked with the finger

Webster (1913) Definition: Piz`zi*ca"to [It., pinched.] (Mus.)
A direction to violinists to pluck the string with the
finger, instead of using the bow. (Abrev. pizz.)

Synonyms: plucked