informalTo do or perform, especially something seen as negative by the speaker.

• He regularly pulls 12-hour days, sometimes 14.
• You'll be sent home if you pull another stunt like that.

To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour associated with the person or thing mentioned (with a and the name of a person, place, event, etc.).

• He pulled an Elvis and got really fat.
• They're trying to pull a Watergate on us.

To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.

To row.

• It had been a sort of race hitherto, and the rowers, with set teeth and compressed lips, had pulled stroke for stroke.

To transport by rowing.

• As the man at the oars pulled him across, the scientist said to him, "Do you know astronomy?"

hobbieslifestylerowingTo achieve by rowing on a rowing machine.

• I pulled a personal best on the erg yesterday.

To draw apart; to tear; to rend.

• He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
• If you are going to pull or chop the pork butt, take it out of the smoker when the meat is in the higher temperature range, put it in a large pan, and let it rest, covered, for 15 to 20 minutes. Using heavy-duty dinner forks, pull the pork butt to shreds.

To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).

video-gamesTo draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward or away from some location or target.

• …we had to clear a long hallway, run up half way, pull the boss mob to us, and engage.
• Basically buff pet, have it pull lots of mobs, shield pet, chain heal pet, have your aoe casters finish off hurt mobs once pet gets good aggro.

To score a certain number of points in a sport.

• How many points did you pull today, Albert?

hobbieshorse-racinghorseracingTo hold back, and so prevent from winning.

• The favourite was pulled.

datedmediaprintingpublishingTo take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked by pulling a lever.

ball-gamescricketgamesTo strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.)

• Never pull a straight fast ball to leg.

To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.

• Let's stop at Finnigan's. The barman pulls a good pint.

To take a swig or mouthful of drink.

• Danny pulled at his beer and thought for a moment.

Of a railroad car, to pull out from a yard or station; to leave.

(Followed by a preposition or adverb) To drive (a vehicle) in a particular direction or to a particular place.

• Pull around to the window please.
• He pulled the car forward until he was out of the way.

governmentlaw-enforcementTo pull over (a driver or vehicle); to detain for a traffic stop.

• The state trooper pulled me for going 60 in a 55 zone.

cookingfoodlifestyleTo repeatedly stretch taffy in order to achieve the desired stretchy texture.

computingengineeringmathematicsTo retrieve source code or other material from a source control repository.

governmenthobbieslifestyleIn practice fighting, to reduce the strength of a blow (etymology 3) so as to avoid injuring one's practice partner.

hobbieshorse-racinghorseracingTo impede the progress of (a horse) to prevent its winning a race.

• 'I never liked Bowler, and I had my suspicions when Captain Ferndale persuaded you to put him up in that race. I did not discover until some time after that he pulled the horse.'

datedslangSomething in one's favour in a comparison or a contest; advantage.

• In weights the favourite had the pull.

Appeal or attraction.

• the pull of a movie star

The act or process of sending out a request for data from a server by a client.

• server pull
• pull technology

A journey made by rowing.

• 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V As Blunt had said, the burning ship lay a good twelve miles from the Malabar, and the pull was a long and a weary one. Once fairly away from the protecting sides of the vessel that had borne them thus far on their dismal journey, the adventurers seemed to have come into a new atmosphere.

datedA contest; a struggle.

• a wrestling pull
• this wrastling pull betweene Corineus and Gogmagog, is reported to have befallen at Douer.

An injury resulting from a forceful pull on a limb, etc.; strain; sprain.

• They used steroids to build strength but, more importantly, to recover from strains, pulls, dislocations.

obsoleteLoss, misfortune, or violence suffered.

• Two pulls at once; / His lady banished, and a limb lopped off.

A drink, especially of an alcoholic beverage; a mouthful or swig of a drink.

• Heah, Sam Johnsing, jis' take a pull at dis bottle, an' it will make yo' feel better.
• However, both gentlemen were clearly of one mind over the quality of the wine, for they each took a prolonged pull, smacked their lips, and looked hard at each other, as though in silent communion over the excellence of the vintage.

ball-gamescricketgamesA type of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the on side; a pull shot.

• The pull is not a legitimate stroke, but bad cricket.

golfhobbieslifestyleA mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended path.

historicalmediaprintingpublishingA single impression from a handpress.

• "Tell George to come down and bring pulls of his latest plates," confirmed Joolby.

mediaprintingpublishingA proof sheet.