pull-up
or pull·up
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.
Origin of pull-up
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How to use pull-up in a sentence
As in the past, you can pull up beside some ladies of the night and call them into your car.
I Felt Like Showering After the First-Person Sex in ‘Grand Theft Auto’ | Alec Kubas-Meyer | November 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd then you'd whip out your iPhone and pull up that snarky tweet your friend wrote linking to the E!
Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Martin Consciously Couple | Kevin Fallon | August 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhere now the outdoor café tables are, right there, buses used to pull up and flush their air-brakes.
Don Carpenter Was a Novelist Both Lacerating and Forgiving | Louis B. Jones | July 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOne of the Sacramento arm wrestlers does pull ups in the wilderness, using tree branches as a pull up bar.
This Arm Wrestling Reality Show Will Make You Beg for Mercy | Kevin Fallon | February 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDo your friends just pull up a picture of fat Jared from Chapter 27 to rag on you sometimes?
Jared Leto on His Brilliant Performance as a Transsexual in ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ | Marlow Stern | September 10, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
And he was so infernally insistent about it, that she was forced to pull up and get away from the post in self-defense.
Raw Gold | Bertrand W. SinclairWe pull up, with steaming cattle, at the old ‘White Horse,’ where lunch is spread.
The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries | Charles G. HarperIt is a wonder he did not pull up geraniums instead of weeds, his mind was so far away.
The Box-Car Children | Gertrude Chandler WarnerFor scarcely were they over the river when a horseman barred their way, and called upon the driver to pull up.
Mistress Wilding | Rafael SabatiniOur train did not pull up to the platform as usual, so all the passengers in turn had the pleasure of taking a three-foot leap.
Ways of War and Peace | Delia Austrian
British Dictionary definitions for pull up
(tr) to remove by the roots
(often foll by with 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
an exercise in which the body is raised up by the arms pulling on a horizontal bar fixed above the head
British old-fashioned a roadside café
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-up
Stop or cause to stop, as in He pulled up his horse, or They pulled up in front of the door. [Early 1600s]
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