Lexic.us

Definition of Pull up

1. Verb. Come to a halt after driving somewhere. "The chauffeur hauled up in front of us"

2. Verb. Straighten oneself. "He drew himself up when he talked to his superior"

3. Verb. Cause (a vehicle) to stop. "He pulled up the car in front of the hotel"

4. Verb. Remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense. "Extract information from the telegram"

Definition of Pull up

1. Verb. lift upwards or vertically ¹

2. Verb. (idiomatic) retrieve; get ¹

3. Verb. (idiomatic) drive close towards something, especially a curb. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pull Up

pull the fat out of the fire pull the fire alarm pull the leg of pull the other leg pull the other one, it's got bells on pull the plug pull the reins in on someone pull the reins in on something pull the rug out from under someone pull the string

pull the trigger pull the wool over somebody's eyes pull the wool over someone's eyes pull through pull together pull up (current term) pull up a pew pull up short pull up stakes pull up stumps

pull wires pulla pullable pullbacks pulldown pulldowns pulled pulled a train pulled one's head in

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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