Sekirov Dictionary

pull off

verb 5
pull-off noun 2
pull-off adjective 1
forms 4

verb5

•
To remove by pulling.
- Pull off old blossoms so that the plant will keep flowering.
- As soon as she got home, she pulled off her clothes.
•
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?
•
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 .
•
To begin moving and then move away; to pull away.
- As the police approached, the car pulled off and sped away into the distance.
[with oneself] (slang, vulgar) To masturbate manually.

pull-off noun2

An area by the side of a road where vehicles may stop; a lay-by.
The technique, when playing a string instrument, of using a finger of the fret hand to pluck a string by pulling the finger off the fretboard.

pull-off adjective1

Able to be removed by pulling.

forms

pulled off · pulling off · pulls off · pull-offs

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