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pull-up
[ pool-uhp ]
noun
- an exercise consisting of chinning oneself, as on a horizontal bar attached at each end to a doorpost.
- a flight maneuver in which an aircraft climbs sharply from level flight.
pull up
verb
- tr to remove by the roots
- often foll bywith or on to move level (with) or ahead (of) or cause to move level (with) or ahead (of), esp in a race
- to stop
- tr to rebuke
noun
- an exercise in which the body is raised up by the arms pulling on a horizontal bar fixed above the head
- old-fashioned.a roadside café
Word History and Origins
Origin of pull-up1
Example Sentences
In the late afternoon, Steinmetz spotted a familiar farmhouse and pulled up to it.
But Agnes is especially lethal in a scene where she simply pulls up an incriminating file on her computer, leaves it onscreen and silently darts out so Lawrence can peer at it.
"I pulled up, got out of the car, and then from just in front of me, Gareth leapt out from the shadows, shotgun up at my chest," she said.
Worn down by all that running, Foster pulled up with cramps on what should have been a long touchdown run.
Nearing their destination, the excited couple were unable to find the dome and Samantha pulled up to a pub to ask for directions to what she assumed would be a local landmark.
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