pull up

See also: pullup and pull-up

English

Verb

pull up (third-person singular simple present pulls up, present participle pulling up, simple past and past participle pulled up)

1. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see pull,‎ up.
   1. (transitive, intransitive) Lift upwards or vertically.

      I pull up the level when I want to make my car go into first gear.

   2. Pull forward.

      Pull up a bench and have a seat.

      Pull the car up a little so you don't block his driveway.

      Pull up a little so you don't block his driveway.

2. (idiomatic) Retrieve; get.

   Pull up that website for me, it looks quite interesting.

3. (idiomatic) Drive close towards something, especially a curb.

   Pull up to that curb slowly; you don't want to scratch that other car.

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:

     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.

   • 2009, Kesha, Tik Tok

     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 CDs / Pulling up to the parties / Trying to get a little bit tipsy.

Translations

lift vertically

• Esperanto: kuspi (eo)
• French: soulever (fr)
• Irish: tarraing suas

• Maori: kōwhiti
• Spanish: alzar (es), levantar (es)