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Verb

pull off (third-person singular simple present pulls off, present participle pulling off, simple past and past participle pulled off)Category:English lemmas#PULLOFFCategory:English verbs#PULLOFFCategory:English phrasal verbs#PULLOFFCategory:English phrasal verbs formed with %22off%22#PULLOFFCategory:English multiword terms#PULLOFFCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PULLOFFCategory:Pages with entries#PULL%20OFFCategory:Pages with 1 entry#PULL%20OFF

1. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PULLOFF) To remove by pulling.

   Pull off old blossoms so that the plant will keep flowering.Category:English terms with usage examples#PULLOFF

   As soon as she got home, she pulled off her clothes.Category:English terms with usage examples#PULLOFF

2. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PULLOFF, idiomaticCategory:English idioms#PULLOFF) To achieve, accomplish, succeed at (something difficult).

   Coordinate term: get away with

   to pull off a heistCategory:English terms with collocations#PULLOFF

   Six pages is a lot to write in one night. Do you think she can pull it off?Category:English terms with usage examples#PULLOFF

   • 1920, Eric Leadbitter, Rain Before Seven, page 122:

     "Oh, I shall pull it off. I shall jolly well have to succeed," said Michael light-heartedly; feeling unusually confident.

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   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 56:

     ‘Never thought I'd pull it off. Picked up that colour flick on the water first-rate. Movement, Edmund, damme, got it a treat on that water.’

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   • 2001 November 18, “What the Muslim World Is Watching”, in The New York Times, retrieved 26 July 2014:

     The preceding year, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the crown prince of Qatar, did a most un-Arab thing: he pulled off a palace coup, taking over the government from his father (who was vacationing in Europe at the time).

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   • 2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC‎:

     In a frantic ending Blake and Crofts pulled off brilliant tackles and Hennessey a string of saves to keep Montenegro at bay and earn Speed his first qualifying success as Wales manager.

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3. (ambitransitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PULLOFFCategory:English intransitive verbs#PULLOFF) To turn off (a road onto the side of the road, or onto another road).

   (transitive) After about a mile, we pulled off the main road onto a dirt track.Category:English terms with usage examples#PULLOFF

   (intransitive) I think the car is overheating – we'd better pull off .Category:English terms with usage examples#PULLOFF

4. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#PULLOFF, of a vehicle) To begin moving and then move away; to pull away.

   As the police approached, the car pulled off and sped away into the distance.Category:English terms with usage examples#PULLOFF

5. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PULLOFF, reflexiveCategory:English reflexive verbs#PULLOFF, vulgarCategory:English vulgarities#PULLOFF, slangCategory:English slang#PULLOFF, usually of a male) To masturbate manually.

   Synonyms: jerk off; see also Thesaurus:masturbate