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means A guitar technique where you pluck the strings individually with your fingers and thumb instead of using a pick, letting you play multiple musical lines at the same time.

from Straightforward compound of 'finger' + 'picking' — picking being the general term for plucking strings to sound a note, going back to the old use of 'pick' meaning to pluck or pull at something with a pointed motion. The style itself has deep roots in blues, ragtime, and folk traditions, where players developed thumb-and-finger patterns to fake the sound of a whole band on one guitar. The word is a plain descriptive label for a technique that long predates it — the name just caught up to what guitarists' hands were already doing.