(of instruments in the violin family) to be plucked with the finger
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Pizzicato \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.)
In the pizzicato of the third, Perlman swung his shoulders in time to what he was playing.