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Definition of Pull-up

1. Noun. A roadside cafe especially for lorry drivers.

2. Noun. An arm exercise performed by pulling yourself up on a horizontal bar until your chin is level with the bar.

Definition of Pull-up

1. Noun. exercise done for strengthening the arms and back in which: ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pull-up

pulka pulkas pulkha pulkhas pulks pull-back pull-down pull-downs pull-focus pull-in

pull-ins pull-off pull-quote pull-through pull-up (current term) pull-ups pull a pull a Homer pull a face pull a fast one

pull a fast one on pull ahead pull along pull an all-nighter pull an oar pull apart pull at pull away

Literary usage of Pull-up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"To PULL UP A JACK, is to stop a post-chaise on the highway. 1825. ... Driver, when will you PULL UP TI don't FULL UP at no tavern till I gets home. 1870. ..."

2. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau (1873)
""And is it not pretty sport," wrote Captain John Smith, who was on this coast as early as 1614, " to pull up twopence, sixpence, ..."

3. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1918)
"begin to pull up the tracks. The order addressed to the companies to remove their tracks was simply to put them in the position of disobedience, ..."

4. Journal by Helicopter Association of Great Britain (1894)
"The thick curve in the middle of the diagram shows the way in which the rotor speed at the end of the pull-up varies with different values of the thrust. ..."

5. The Polynesian Wanderings: Tracks of the Migration Deduced from an by William Churchill (1911)
"Samoa: futi, to pluck feathers or hair, to pull up weeds; ... to hoist, to pull up out of the ground; huti-ika, to pull up a fish. ..."

6. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1807)
"... pull up all their hopes by the roots, and was interpreted " by that party, as an aft of Providence to ..."

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