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Definition of Pull up short
1. Verb. Stop abruptly. "The police car pulled up short and then turned around fast"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pull Up Short
Literary usage of Pull up short
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Leisure Hour edited by William Haig Miller, James Macaulay, William Stevens (1894)
"... they usually pull up short at some word which leaves it impossible for the
listener to have any doubt as to what the sentence in its entirety would be. ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Frederick George Aflalo, Hedley Peek (1897)
"Such signal being once hoisted, keep pretty close to it, and pull up short if it
vanishes, when the chances are it will be seen reappearing from a burn or a ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"Both of them would pull up short at a bit of a measure which a little while
afterwards they would swallow whole without the least reluctance. ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1868)
"Both of them would pull up short at a bit of a measure which a little while
afterwards they would swallow whole without the least reluctance. ..."
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