pull-off
an act of pulling off: The inn is well worth a pull-off from the Interstate.
a rest area at the side of a road where vehicles may park.
Origin of pull-off
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How to use pull-off in a sentence
The light pull-off enables a steady shooter to make surpassingly fine diagrams.
Most of the modern work reveals a tiny blue dot at the pull-off of the fine hair brush or pencil.
Chats on Oriental China | J. F. Blacker"My fingers are shaky, and this is a hard pull-off, or I'd have shown you the man who betrayed me," he said.
The League of the Leopard | Harold Bindloss
British Dictionary definitions for pull off
to remove (clothing) forcefully
(adverb) to succeed in performing (a difficult feat)
(intr) (of a motor vehicle, driver, etc) to move to the side of the road and stop
(intr) (of a motor vehicle, driver, etc) to start to move
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with pull-off
Accomplish, bring off, especially in the face of difficulties or at the last minute. For example, I never thought we'd ever stage this play, but somehow we pulled it off. [Colloquial; second half of 1800s]
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