Definition
To fetch for display on a screen.
To arrive at a halt; to approach and stop at a particular point.
To arrive at a halt; to approach and stop at a particular point.
To cause (a horse) to stop when riding.
To cause (a person) to stop.
To admonish or criticize someone for their actions.
To fare after a party, an illness, or a strenuous effort; to attempt to recover.
In Context
- "Pull up that website for me; it sounds quite interesting."
- "Pull up to that curb slowly; you don't want to scratch that other car."
- "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."
- ""Taxi," he called. And when one pulled up to the curb with screeching brakes he ordered, "The nearest restaurant.""
- "The horse had galloped over the sand-ridge to the beach and there pulled up, nostrils quivering at an insult to its trained intelligence."
- "At every station, bundles of newspapers, boxes of fish, and other commodities had to be unloaded, and, as most of the platforms are rather short, the train usually had to pull up twice."
- "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 CD / Pulling up to the parties / Trying to get a little bit tipsy."
- "I'm pulling up to the club tonight, want to join?"
- "You can always pull up to your favorite national chain such as Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts who is offering a free cup with any purchase on Wednesday or any fast food restaurant."
- "Staying true to form, Thompson took to Instagram on Saturday to announce his return. Sharing a clip from "Space Jam," Thompson captioned the post, "How I'm pulling up to chase [Center] tomorrow.""
- "Kanye's gotten into some scrapes before and normally when he's in trouble, I pull up immediately. This time I was like, you know what? Let me see what's gonna happen first."
- ""People pull me up in the street to ask if I have room for their son, daughter, sister or cousin to come down to go to school[.]""
- "At 4pm, the phone went. It was The Sun: 'We hear your daughter's been expelled for cheating at her school exams...' She'd made a remark to a friend at the end of the German exam and had been pulled up for talking. As they left the exam room, she muttered that the teacher was a 'twat'. He heard and flipped—a pretty stupid thing to do, knowing the kids were tired and tense after exams. Instead of dropping it, the teacher complained to the Head and Deb was carpeted."
- "My coursework began to suffer and my parents pulled me up on it and said we are not paying for you to get off your head every night."
- "I was pulled up by a male reader who had been a victim of domestic abuse, for using the word 'women' instead of 'victims'. He rightly pointed out that men are victims of abuse too."
- "How'd you pull up this morning?"
Opposite In Meaning
- push over