pull-up
An exercise done for strengthening the arms and back in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar. Palms may be facing in any direction.
Noun
- An exercise done for strengthening the arms and back in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar. Palms may be facing in any direction.
- DeWitt compared the average number of pullups college men can do grasping the bar with palms toward the face (supinated) and palms away from the face (pronated), and with kicking and kipping while raising the body. The...
- 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii I did lots of push-ups and pull-ups, and my only regret is that I stopped doing them as a young adult when I finally got to work out in health clubs...
Origin
Deverbal from pull up.
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Noun Entry 2
- Synonym of training pants (“undergarments worn by incontinent people, typically infants, to aid in toilet training during the transition between diapers and underpants”).
Synonyms: training pants
Origin
Genericized trademark: from the Pull-Ups brand of training pants sold by Huggies.
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Noun business, electrical engineering
- A pull-up resistor.
Origin
Clipping.
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Verb
- To do a pull-up or pull oneself up similarly.
- 2012, The Young Despondents. Jason M. Burns. With a sleek yet muscular build, Nick out pullupped everyone during physical fitness week
- 2010, Designation Gold Rogue Warrior. Richard Marcinko From there, things were easy—well, relatively easy. I stood on the rail, reached up, grasped the floor of the balcony above, fingertip pull-upped onto the lip,...