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Princeton's WordNet

  1. pull-in, pull-upnoun

    a roadside cafe especially for lorry drivers

  2. pull-up, chin-upverb

    an arm exercise performed by pulling yourself up on a horizontal bar until your chin is level with the bar

  3. draw up, pull up, haul upverb

    come to a halt after driving somewhere

    "The Rolls pulled up on pour front lawn"; "The chauffeur hauled up in front of us"

  4. draw up, pull up, straighten upverb

    straighten oneself

    "He drew himself up when he talked to his superior"

  5. draw up, pull upverb

    cause (a vehicle) to stop

    "He pulled up the car in front of the hotel"

  6. extract, pull out, pull, pull up, take out, draw outverb

    remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense

    "pull weeds"; "extract a bad tooth"; "take out a splinter"; "extract information from the telegram"

Wiktionary

  1. pull-upnoun

    exercise done for strengthening the arms and back in which:

ChatGPT

  1. pull-up

    A pull-up is a strength training exercise where a person raises their body using their arms by pulling up against gravity and then lowering back down. Usually, this is done by gripping an overhead bar, with the palms facing the person or away. The person's feet typically do not touch the ground between repetitions, requiring endurance, strength, and control.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of pull-up in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of pull-up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of pull-up in a Sentence

  1. Telly Blair:

    You pull up to get gas -- they try to sell you drugs, and not just three or four, but it's a bulk of people.

  2. Gina Luster:

    You pull up to a place where you need this water, and the line is a mile long and you're waiting in your car, praying you don't run out of gas waiting, and you've got your kids in the car and they're looking at you like 'What are you going to do about this?'.

  3. Fredrick Harris:

    He's asking people to pull up their pants and act right, people are questioning, 'Why were you unzipping yours and pulling yours down?'.

  4. Robert Blovsky:

    He's very very intelligent, I'll give you that, he wanted to be alone, so he left. He said he was hiding. But he would pull up his hoodie when he said he would go out early in the morning to go look for food.

  5. John Bellinger:

    This is an absurd proposal to build a Fortress America and pull up the drawbridges.


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