pull up
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, up.
Verb
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, up.
- I pull up the lever when I want to make my car go into first gear.
- By the 11th, however, feeling between the rival companies had penetrated down to the "lower ranks," for on that day some over-zealous officials of the Midland caused the Lancashire & Yorkshire metals to be pulled up at...
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(transitive, intransitive) To lift upwards or vertically.
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To pull forward.
- Pull up a bench and have a seat.
- pull up a chair
- pull up a pew
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(intransitive, aviation) To raise the nose of an aircraft.
- Terrain, terrain! Pull up! Pull up!
- To fetch for display on a screen.
- Pull up that website for me; it sounds quite interesting.
- To arrive at a halt; to approach and stop at a particular point.
- Pull up to that curb slowly; you don't want to scratch that other car.
- We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine.[…]As we reached the lodge we heard the whistle, and we backed up against one...
- "Taxi," he called. And when one pulled up to the curb with screeching brakes he ordered, "The nearest restaurant." - 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 12:
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(by extension, slang, originally African-American Vernacular) To travel somewhere, especially to meet someone else; to come to.
- I'm pulling up to the club tonight, want to join?
- You can always pull up to your favorite national chain such as Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts who is offering a free cup with any purchase on Wednesday or any fast food restaurant. - 2021 September 21, Tina Adkins, “September...
- Staying true to form, Thompson took to Instagram on Saturday to announce his return. Sharing a clip from "Space Jam," Thompson captioned the post, "How I'm pulling up to chase [Center] tomorrow." - 2022 January 9, “NBA...
- To cause (a horse) to stop when riding.
- To cause (a person or vehicle) to stop.
- "Well, sir, we were always pulled up on Thursday; practically always, you may say. It got to be quite a saying among those who used the train regular; they used to look out for it. […] I suppose it wasn't thought worth...
- "People pull me up in the street to ask if I have room for their son, daughter, sister or cousin to come down to go to school[.]" - 2021 February 5, The Road Ahead, Brisbane, page 16, column 3:
- To admonish or criticize someone for their actions.
- At 4pm, the phone went. It was The Sun: 'We hear your daughter's been expelled for cheating at her school exams...' She'd made a remark to a friend at the end of the German exam and had been pulled up for talking. As...
- My coursework began to suffer and my parents pulled me up on it and said we are not paying for you to get off your head every night. - 2014, April De Angelis, Wild East:
- I was pulled up by a male reader who had been a victim of domestic abuse, for using the word 'women' instead of 'victims'. He rightly pointed out that men are victims of abuse too. - 2021 May 5, Christian Wolmar,...
- To intentionally take a racehorse out of a race, usually as a result of the horse's tiredness or concerns of potential injury (in reference to the act of pulling up the reins).
- In this May 20, 2006, Barbaro is steadied[sic, "by" is missing] a track worker as jockey Edgar Prado looks on after he pulled up the horse with a fractured right rear leg during the 131st running of the Preakness Stakes...
- To improve; to get better; to lift one's game.
- A local doctor had bought one canvas and but for that lucky chance he would have been out of pocket. Now he was muttering grumpily at Edmund, "Have to get something better this trip, Edmund. Got to pull up somehow or...
- To fare after a party, an illness, or a strenuous effort; to attempt to recover.
- How'd you pull up this morning?
- To adopt a posture with straight back and shoulders down, but ribcage and sternum lifted.