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▸ verb: To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.
▸ verb: (transitive) To attract or net; to pull in.
▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive, UK, Ireland, slang) To persuade (someone) to have sex with one.
▸ verb: (transitive) To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
▸ verb: (transitive) To retrieve or generate for use.
▸ verb: (construction) To obtain (a permit) from a regulatory authority.
▸ verb: (transitive, informal) To do or perform, especially something seen as negative by the speaker.
▸ verb: (with 'a' and the name of a person, place, event, etc.) To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
▸ verb: To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To row.
▸ verb: (transitive, rowing) To achieve by rowing on a rowing machine.
▸ verb: To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
▸ verb: (transitive) To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
▸ verb: (video games, transitive, intransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward or away from some location or target.
▸ verb: (UK) To score a certain number of points in a sport.
▸ verb: (horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
▸ verb: (printing, dated) To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked by pulling a lever.
▸ verb: (cricket, golf) To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.)
▸ verb: (UK) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To take a swig or mouthful of drink.
▸ verb: (rail transportation, US, of a railroad car) To pull out from a yard or station; to leave.
▸ verb: (now chiefly Scotland, England and US regional) To pluck or pick (flowers, fruit etc.).
▸ verb: (cooking, transitive, intransitive) To repeatedly stretch taffy in order to achieve the desired stretchy texture.
▸ verb: (computing) To retrieve source code or other material from a source control repository.
▸ verb: (martial arts) In practice fighting, to reduce the strength of a blow (etymology 3) so as to avoid injuring one's practice partner.
▸ verb: (horse racing, transitive) To impede the progress of (a horse) to prevent its winning a race.
▸ noun: An act of pulling (applying force toward oneself).
▸ noun: An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.
▸ noun: (figurative, by extension) An advantage over somebody; a means of influencing.
▸ noun: (uncountable, informal) The power to influence someone or something; sway, clout.
▸ noun: Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
▸ noun: (slang, dated) Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest.
▸ noun: Appeal or attraction (e.g. of a movie star).
▸ noun: (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in server pull, pull technology
▸ noun: A journey made by rowing.
▸ noun: (dated) A contest; a struggle.
▸ noun: An injury resulting from a forceful pull on a limb, etc.; a strain.
▸ noun: (obsolete, poetic) Loss or violence suffered.
▸ noun: (colloquial) The act of drinking; a mouthful or swig of a drink.
▸ noun: (cricket) A 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.
▸ noun: (golf) A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended path.
▸ noun: (printing, historical) A single impression from a handpress.
▸ noun: (printing) A proof sheet.
▸ noun: (gacha games) A player's use of a game's gacha mechanic to obtain a random reward.
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