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pull
verb- (of police) to stop a vehicle; to stop someone for questioning UK
A broader usage of the earlier sense “to arrest”. - — Peter Laurie, Scotland Yard, p. 326, 1970
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 90, 1996
- to arrest someone UK, 1811
- The courtroom was full cause Bud had been pulled. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 57, 1976
- to engage in a casual or recreational quest for a sexual partner UK, 1965
- I’m not trying to pull you / Even though I would like to[.] — Mike Skinner, Fit But You Know It, 2004
- to recruit someone into prostitution US
- It was there he pulled his first ofay girl. — Babs Gonzales, I Paid My Dues, p. 99, 1967
- I was traveling with my partner, Cocaine Smitty / On our way to pull some whores in Mexico City. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 36, 1976
- to serve time in prison or in the armed forces US
- The “elder” man had “pulled his combat time,” and this was the way many arguments ended, even arguments about religion and politics, and not about the war at all. — Russell Davis, Marine at War, p. 57, 1961
- The haras wanted to know how things had been in Comstock, how long I had pulled, and how it had been. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 312, 1967
- to leave US
- Rudy started the car. “I’m pullin.” — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 35, 1960
- (of an adult) to buy beer or cigarettes illegally for a minor CANADA
This term is especially, almost exclusively, used in Saskatchewan. - Pulling describes when an adult buys liquor or cigarettes for minors. — An American’s Guide to Canada, p. 9, 10 November 2001
- (of a jockey) to deliberately ride a racehorse to lose AUSTRALIA
- Jockeys are often accused of pulling horses when they are not in fault, but I am sorry to say I have seen horses deliberately “stopped”. — Nat Gould, On and Off the Turf, p. 123, 1895
- PULLING A HORSE–To prevent a horse from winning a race. — Gilbert H. Lawson, A Dictionary of Australian Words and Terms, 1924
- Occasionally, when luck’s not with him, he excuses his losses by slamming rotten jockeys who pull their mounts, or race three-wide all the way, or else blames their horses for getting blocked for a run. — Clive Galea, Slipper!, p. 7, 1988
- Ooh, you pulled that horse, didn’t you. — Herb Wharton, Cattle Camp, p. 189, 1994
▶ pull a fast one
to do something daring (often a criminal act) and hope to get away with it by being smarter, faster and more deceitful than those set to prevent you; to play a dirty trick UK, 1943
Originally military.- [H]aving treated Bush in the midterm elections largely as a bipartisan figure above politics, they found that Bush pulled a fast one on them and went for the Democratic jugular. — New Statesman, 3 February 2003
▶ pull a stroke
to do something daring (often a criminal act) and get away with it by being smarter, faster and more deceitful than those set to prevent you; to play a dirty trick UK- — Peter Laurie, Scotland Yard, p. 326, 1970
▶ pull my mouth
to try to get me to say something in particular CANADA- “ Pulling my mouth” may be modelled on, or an original version of, the familiar “pulling my coat” -- US young male slang for “pointing out a pretty girl,” or “pointing out a girl showing thigh or cleavage.” — Lewis Poteet, The South Shore Phrase Book, p. 88, 1999
▶ pull on
to tackle someone; to contend with someone; to test someone AUSTRALIA, 1953- I’ll pull on the Prime Minister himself if I can’t get a permit for my business. — Edwin Morrisby 30 August 1958
▶ pull on the rope
to masturbate a man US- And then you start pulling on the rope or to throw the bad-headed champ [perform oral sex], boy you have reached rock bottom in my opinion. — Bruce Jackson, In the Life, p. 171, 1972
▶ pull out (all) the stops
to apply maximum effort to the task in hand UK, 1974
From the stops that limit the full sound of a pipe-organ.- She unpacks the china on to the table an’ moves a plate of biscuits a millimetre to let us know she pulled out all the stops. — Nick Barlay, Curvy Lovebox, p. 71, 1997
▶ pull pud
(used of a male) to masturbate UK- I’m not pulling pud here. I know we’re gonna be big. — Airheads, 1994
▶ pull someone’s coat
to warn someone; to alert someone US- Last night Lovis had pulled Mort’s coat about something. — Bernard Wolfe, The Late Risers, p. 35, 1954
- Then get thee in front on a sudden bunt and I’ll pull your coat and let you know that’s all she wrote. — Dan Burley, Diggeth Thou?, p. 25, 1959
- “I been tryin to pull you coat,” Ace said. — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 77, 1960
- Say, “I shouldn’t pull you coat but I guess I might as well/ I’m that wicked bitch they call Kansas City Nell.” — Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, p. 111, 1964
- Shit, man, I been in court before, so you better watch me and let me pull your coat about how to act in front of that judge, and those other white people. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 95, 1965
- He pulled my coat to all the aspects of royalties I never knew existed. — Babs Gonzales, I Paid My Dues, p. 51, 1967
- Look here, baby, pull my coat to what’s going down! — Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, p. 198, 1968
- In case you ain’t hip to the Moore School, let me pull your coat to the cracks-on-the-ass bit. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 17, 1973
- Phil could pull my coat if the gorilla drove up. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Airtight Willie and Me, p. 30, 1979
- She used to get on the corner and rap with the younger ones and pull their coats to what was happening. — Herbert Huncke, Guilty of Everything, p. 4, 1990
- [T]here was no way to pull the Homicide’s coat about his brother taking the rap for Buddha Hat without implicating himself. — Richard Price, Clockers, p. 423, 1992
- After Jim pulled my coat to Hargrave, we came up with a way to cheat him “like white folks cheat us.” — Nathan McCall, Makes Me Wanna Holler, p. 200, 1994
▶ pull someone’s covers
to reveal a person’s true character US- — William K. Bentley and James M. Corbett, Prison Slang, p. 33, 1970
▶ pull someone’s plonker- to fool someone; to tease someone; to take a liberty with someone UK
Variation of PULL SOMEONE’S LEG, similar to PULL SOMEONE’S PISSER, with PLONKER (the penis) supplying the image. - I find myself involved in a game of ping-pong with a shagged out old slapper who’s pulling my plonker to the tune of twenty grand a time. — Bernard Demsey and Kevin McNally, Lock, Stock... & Two Sips, p. 289, 2000
- to waste time UK, 1982
From the sense “to masturbate”.
▶ pull someone’s tit
to good-naturedly hoax or deceive someone; to make a fool of someone AUSTRALIA- — Edward Lindall, No Place to Hide, 1959
▶ pull the head off it
(of a male) to masturbate UK- I cannot wait for her to fuck off out the house so’s I can get into some of them little adverts and pull the fucking head off it. — Kevin Sampson, Clubland, p. 50, 2002
▶ pull the monkey
to pull a rubber disc through a cess drain in order to clean the drain UK- — Harvey Sheppard, A Dictionary of Railway Slang, 1970
▶ pull the pin
to resign or retire from a job US, 1927
Based on the US railroad imagery of uncoupling train wagons by pulling a pin on the couplers.- — Norman Carlisle, The Modern Wonder Book of Trains and Railroading, p. 267, 1946
- “ You’re not even considering pulling the pin, are you, Bumper?” asked Seymour[.] — Joseph Wambaugh, The Blue Knight, p. 15, 1973
- Pulling the pin at twenty? — James Ellroy, Because the Night, p. 308, 1984
▶ pull the plug- to stop; to finish UK
An electrical image. - J.D: Man Veronica, pull the plug on that shit. — Heathers, 1988
- in submarining, to dive US
- — American Speech, p. 38, February 1948: “Talking under water: speech in submarines”
▶ pull the rein
to advise AUSTRALIA
The “right rein” is good advice, the “bad rein”, bad advice.- — Ned Wallish, The Truth Dictionary of Racing Slang, p. 65, 1989
▶ pull the rug out
to disturb the status quo UK- Suppose he decides to pull the rug out–change his Will–set up with a fresh woman. — Alan Hunter, Gently in Trees, 1974
▶ pull the wool over someone’s eyes
to deceive someone, especially as regards the deceiver’s intentions US, 1842- [S]he took pride in the fact that it was impossible to pull the wool over her eyes. — Alice Sebold, Lucky, p. 21, 1999
▶ pull time
to be sentenced to imprisonment US, 1950- “ I don’t want to pull any more time,” Junior tells me, “but I wouldn’t take anything in the world for the experience I had in prison.” — Tom Wolfe, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, p. 145, 1965
- I’ve talked to men who have pulled time all over the country and they say it’s the same everywhere. — Malcolm Braly, On the Yard, p. 42, 1967
- You got to be a boss crook to pull that kind of time. — Joseph Wambaugh, The Blue Knight, p. 71, 1973
- I’d be eighty-two years old when I got out if I pulled every day of it. — Piri Thomas, Seven Long Times, p. 61, 1974
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 90, 1996
▶ pull up on
to approach US- Someone pulled up on him on the yard and told him what he knew of him. — Jack Henry Abbott, In the Belly of the Beast, p. 68, 1981
▶ pull up stakes
to depart; to move house AUSTRALIA, 1961
▶ pull wires
to use personal influence to achieve a desired outcome UK, 1984
A variation of “pull strings”.▶ pull your head in
mind your own business AUSTRALIA, 1942- He is told to pull his head in and is thrown out by two footballers. — Cyril Pearl, So, you want to be an Australian, p. 59, 1959
- — J.E. MacDonnell, Don’t Gimme the Ships, p. 27, 1960
- — Sue Rhodes, Now you’ll think I’m awful, p. 81, 1967
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 74, 1977
▶ pull your pud; pull your pudden; pull your pudding
(of a male), to masturbate UK, 1944- I sat there pulling my pud like a total dip and told her to take her whatchamacallit and go home[.] — Lawrence Block, No Score [The Affairs of Chip Harrison Omnibus], p. 150, 1970
▶ pull your punches
to exercise moderation, especially in punishment or blame UK, 1934
From boxing.- Yet, given the scale of the scandal and the length of the 16m inquiry, the judge has pulled his punches. — The Guardian, 27 October 2000
▶ pull your wire
(of a male), to masturbate UK, 1937 |