Dictionary

pull off en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (transitive) To remove by pulling.
   • As soon as she got home, she pulled off her clothes.
   • Pull off old blossoms so that the plant will keep flowering.
2. (idiomatic, transitive) To achieve, accomplish, succeed at (something difficult).
   • Six pages is a lot to write in one night. Do you think she can pull it off?
   • 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). 2001 November 18, “What the Muslim World Is Watching”, in The New York Times, retrieved 26 Jul 2014:
   • 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. 2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC:
   • ‘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.’ 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 56:
   • to pull off a heist
   • "Oh, I shall pull it off. I shall jolly well have to succeed," said Michael light-heartedly; feeling unusually confident. 1920, Eric Leadbitter, Rain Before Seven, page 122:
3. (ambitransitive) 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.
   • (intransitive) I think the car is overheating – we'd better pull off .
4. (intransitive, 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.
5. (of a male, reflexive, slang, transitive, usually, vulgar) To masturbate manually.

Forms

Coordinates

get away with

Synonyms

frig · jerk one off · goon · abuse · play pocket pool · whack off · jork it · bate · stroke · fap · toss · touch oneself · service oneself · bash one out · yank · knock one out · skeet · jerk · pleasure oneself · beat it · make the bald man cry · masturbate · mastuprate · jerk it · play with oneself · jack off · wank off · jerk the gherkin · crank one out · wank · jack it · rub one out · jerk off · rub one off · jerk one out · jerk off · self-abuse · toss off · beat off · self-pollute

Translations (47)

pl zjechać (To turn off (a road)) · pl ściągać (To remove by pulling) · es pergeñar (To achieve; to succeed at (something difficult)) · es verse bien con (To achieve; to succeed at (something difficult)) · de abzupfen (To remove by pulling) · de sich einen runterholen (To masturbate) · de wegziehen (To remove by pulling) · bg придобивам с труд (To achieve; to succeed at (something difficult)) · de an den Straßenrand fahren (To turn off (a road)) · de abbiegen (To turn off (a road)) · de ausziehen (To remove by pulling) · de herunterfahren (To turn off (a road)) · es desviarse (To turn off (a road)) · ru добиться (To achieve; to succeed at (something difficult)) · fi nyppiä irti (To remove by pulling) · pt conseguir (To achieve; to succeed at (something difficult)) · ru стянуть (To remove by pulling) · pl zwojować (To achieve; to succeed at (something difficult)) · it sbrogliare (To achieve; to succeed at (something difficult)) · pl ściągnąć (To remove by pulling) · fi onnistua (To achieve; to succeed at (something difficult)) · ru смочь (To achieve; to succeed at (something difficult)) · fr sortir (To remove by pulling) · sv greja (To achieve; to succeed at (something difficult)) · it riuscire (To achieve; to succeed at (something difficult)) · es llevar a cabo (To achieve; to succeed at (something difficult)) · es llevarse el gato al agua (To achieve; to succeed at (something difficult)) · es poner una pica en Flandes (To achieve; to succeed at (something difficult)) · fr s'en sortir (To achieve; to succeed at (something difficult)) · pl osiągnąć (To achieve; to succeed at (something difficult)) · pl udać (To achieve; to succeed at (something difficult)) · de durchziehen (To achieve; to succeed at (something difficult)) · es verse bien en (To achieve; to succeed at (something difficult)) · de hinkriegen (To achieve; to succeed at (something difficult)) · fr s'en tirer (To achieve; to succeed at (something difficult)) · fi nyppiä pois (To remove by pulling) · bg свалям (To remove by pulling) · fr retirer (To remove by pulling) · lt pasiekti (To achieve; to succeed at (something difficult)) · es sacar adelante (To achieve; to succeed at (something difficult)) · de wegziehen (To begin moving and then move away) · ru съехать (To turn off (a road)) · fi repiä irti (To remove by pulling) · ru оттащить (To remove by pulling) · bg отбивам се (To turn off (a road)) · de anziehen (To begin moving and then move away) · pl osiągać (To achieve; to succeed at (something difficult))