Definition of pull-up
: chin-up
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First Known Use of pull-up
1901
pull up
Definition of pull up
1 a
: to check oneself
b
: to come to an often abrupt halt : stop
2
: to draw even with others in a race
Examples of pull up in a Sentence
the jockey tried to pull up the apparently injured horse
Recent Examples of pull up from the Web
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Divers have also begun pulling up keys, jewelry, along with a pocket watch and a gold plated box that is the size of a match box.
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Prosecutors say Goddard’s teenage son, also named Gary, and Williams were among a group of people outside a home on the 900 block of Elmhurst Avenue when McDuffie, Ballard and Wilson pulled up to the property in a car and got out of the vehicle.
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An innocent little girl — a baby, really — was sitting with her parents on the front porch of their South Side home when someone pulled up in a car and starting firing.
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In 1971, a boy identified as B.J. in his lawsuit, was hanging out with friends in front of a store when Brouillard pulled up in his Volkswagen.
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Five years ago, CJ Grisham was hiking in Bell County with an assault rifle slung across his torso when a Temple police officer pulled up behind him.
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The silence was broken only by a vintage pickup truck pulling up to the Downs grain elevator, huge mounds of excess grain piled high on the ground all around it.
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One neighbor saw several cars pull up to DeAngelo's house in the late afternoon, and armored police pour out of them, with arrest warrants on charges of murder.
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When the last 18-wheeler pulled up under the Coolidge Highway bridge sometime before sunrise, there were 13 of them in total.
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First Known Use of pull up
1623
pull up Synonyms
Synonyms
arrest, bring up, catch, check, draw up, fetch up, halt, hold up, stall, stay, still, stop;
Near Antonyms
carry on, continue, follow through (with), keep (on), keep up, persist, run on;
advance, fare, go along, march, move, proceed, progress, wend;
actuate, budge, drive, goad, impel, propel, push, spur, stir;
Related Words
baffle, balk, block, blockade, bottleneck, clog, dam, detain, hinder, hold, hold back, impede, obstruct, snag, stem;
conclude, cut off, end, terminate;
choke off, rein (in), repress, squash, squelch, stanch (or staunch), stunt, suppress, turn back;
PULL-UP Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of pull-up for English Language Learners
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: an exercise in which you hold onto a bar above your head and then pull your body up until your chin is above the bar
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