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Pull-up

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Noun

1. pull-in, pull-up

a roadside cafe especially for lorry drivers

2. chin-up, pull-up

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Pull-up

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verb (adverb)
1. (transitive)
to remove by the roots
2. (often foll by with or on)
to move level (with) or ahead (of) or cause to move level (with) or ahead (of), esp in a race
3. 
to stop
4. (transitive)
to rebuke
noun pull-up
5. 
an exercise in which the body is raised up by the arms pulling on a horizontal bar fixed above the head
6. British old-fashioned
a roadside café
noun British
1. old-fashioned another name for pull-in
2. gymnastics
an exercise in which you hold onto a high bar above your head and pull yourself up towards it
We'll do some pull-ups. If you do some of these every day your arms will soon be as strong as mine.

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Pull-up

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1. 
to uproot
2. 
to bring or come to a stop
3. 
a. 
to drive (a vehicle) to a specified place
b. 
to make (an aircraft) nose up sharply
4. 
to check or rebuke
noun
an exercise in which a person chins himself or herself

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Pull-up

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n.
See chin-up.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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