pullout

A withdrawal, especially of armed forces.

Noun

  1. A withdrawal, especially of armed forces.
  2. The change of the flight of an aircraft from a dive to level or climbing flight.
  3. An object, such as a newspaper supplement, that can be pulled out from something else.
  4. Synonym of liftout (“quotation given special visual treatment”).

    Synonyms: liftout

  5. An area by the side of a road where vehicles may temporarily stop in safety. Typical pullouts allow drivers and passengers to safely exit the vehicle but rarely have additional amenities.
    • Capt. Greg Baarts with the CHP Northern Division says information pulled from the SUV's software shows the vehicle was stopped at the highway pullout before it accelerated straight off the cliff. - 2018 April 1, Paul...

    Synonyms: turnout

  6. The ending of a period of surfing by navigating the surfboard into or over the back of a wave.
    • Here's a pretty strange pullout. An "El Rollo." When Corky does something strange, everyone for 50 yards knows all about it. - 1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer:
    • Most pullouts, then and today, are done by simply angling or pivoting the board up and over the wave crest. - 2005, Matt Warshaw, The Encyclopedia of Surfing, page 482:
    • […] Machado, who turns what might seem like a handicap, that lankiness, to rubbery advantage in his sinuous carving and slackly cool pullouts. - 2015, John Engle, Surfing in the Movies: A Critical History, page 131:
  7. The coitus interruptus method of birth control.

Origin

Etymology tree English pull outdeverb. English pullout Deverbal from pull out.

Forms

pullouts pull-out