if a vehicle or driver pulls up, they stop
if you pull up, or if something pulls you up, you unexpectedly stop what you are doing
to criticize someone about something they are not doing well enough
to make someone unexpectedly stop in surprise and think
to move a seat near to where someone is sitting, and sit on it
Finally we pull up in a deserted street next to a small bookshop.
Ginny's father and his disciples haven't managed, after all, to pull up the drawbridge.
Last week my five-year-old pulled me up on my spelling!
She had to pull up hard on her feet to keep them from sticking to the floor.
She scooped Keefer up, and pull-up pants and juice bottles tumbled.
The last thing I wanted was for some well-meaning citizen - or, worse yet, a policeman - to pull up behind me to offer assistance.
The question pulled Rory up short.
Their taxi pulled up outside the church.
`Jocelyn needs a good steady pull-up, but not until she's got over her present state of weeps.
pulls up
pulling up
pulled up
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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