A deep inhalation or draft, as on a cigarette or of a beverage.
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A sustained effort: a long pull across the mountains.
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Force exerted in pulling or required to overcome resistance in pulling.
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Informal Ability to draw or attract; appeal: a star with pull at the box office.
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Slang A means of gaining special advantage; influence: The lobbyist has pull with the senator.
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verb
To move back from the line of scrimmage and toward one flank to provide blocking for a ballcarrier.
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To feel or express strong sympathy .
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To admit of being .
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To draw a gun.
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To strain against the bit.
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verb-transitive
Informal To attract; draw: a performer who pulls large crowds.
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Informal To remove: pulled the engine; pulled the tainted meat product from the stores.
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Nautical To be rowed by: That boat pulls six oars.
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Nautical To operate (an oar) in rowing.
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Nautical To transport or propel by rowing.
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verb-intransitive
Nautical To row a boat.
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To drink or inhale deeply: pulled on the cold beer with gusto; pull on a cigarette.
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To exert force in moving something toward the source of the force.
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idiom
Pull a fast one Informal To play a trick or perpetrate a fraud.
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Pull something To carry out a deception or swindle.
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Pull the plug on Slang To stop supporting or bring to an end: pulled the plug on the new art courses.
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Pull the rug (out) from under Informal To remove all support and assistance from, usually suddenly.
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Pull the string Baseball To throw an off-speed pitch.
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