pull up

See also: pullup and pull-up

English

Verb

pull up (third-person singular simple present pulls up, present participle pulling up, simple past and past participle pulled up)

  1. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see pull, up.
    1. (transitive, intransitive) Lift upwards or vertically.
      I pull up the level when I want to make my car go into first gear.
    2. Pull forward.
      Pull up a bench and have a seat.
      Pull the car up a little so you don't block his driveway.
      Pull up a little so you don't block his driveway.
  2. (idiomatic) Retrieve; get.
    Pull up that website for me, it looks quite interesting.
  3. (idiomatic) Drive close towards something, especially a curb.
    Pull up to that curb slowly; you don't want to scratch that other car.
    • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:
      We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. [] As we reached the lodge we heard the whistle, and we backed up against one side of the platform as the train pulled up at the other.
    • 2009, Kesha, Tik Tok
      I'm talking pedicure on our toes, toes / Trying on all our clothes, clothes / Boys blowing up our phones, phones / Drop-topping, playing our favorite CDs / Pulling up to the parties / Trying to get a little bit tipsy.

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