Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In gun-making, the power required to be applied to the trigger to discharge a gun.
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- noun designated paved area beside a main road where cars can stop temporarily
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Examples
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Back on Scarborough Road, I found what looked like a pull-off rather than a driveway and, after a moment of indecision, left my car there, not wanting to lose a wheel as well as a muffler.
Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011
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Back on Scarborough Road, I found what looked like a pull-off rather than a driveway and, after a moment of indecision, left my car there, not wanting to lose a wheel as well as a muffler.
Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011
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I went to the planners, and I said, 'I don't want a pull-off, I don't want an exit, I want to get 'em through the valley as fast as they can go.'
Carol Polsgrove: A Big Road Through a Little Refuge: I-69 Threatens Endangered Species Carol Polsgrove 2010
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Back on Scarborough Road, I found what looked like a pull-off rather than a driveway and, after a moment of indecision, left my car there, not wanting to lose a wheel as well as a muffler.
Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011
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Jacob Stein - Few men can pull-off the bow-tie without looking like Pee Wee Herman or Malcolm X.
Roger Stone: StoneZone's 2011 Best and Worst Dressed Roger Stone 2012
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I went to the planners, and I said, 'I don't want a pull-off, I don't want an exit, I want to get 'em through the valley as fast as they can go.'
Carol Polsgrove: A Big Road Through a Little Refuge: I-69 Threatens Endangered Species Carol Polsgrove 2010
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An old Wheaties cereal box had a pull-off record attached to its front.
Alex Vadukul: An Annual Music Hajj in New York Alex Vadukul 2010
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For so many years, there has been so much hype from state and local government officials about how this highway would change our lives that I guess I was expecting a grander beginning: cars queuing up to be first, people waving from the emergency pull-off lanes, breakfast coupons, maybe a marching band.
Test-driving the ICC: Racetrack-smooth, but at 7.2 miles, lacking utility 2011
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Shawn “Eagle Eye” Rounds spotted the tiny marker the second time we passed it and another set of u-turns got us into the pull-off.
Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2010
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Jacob Stein - Few men can pull-off the bow-tie without looking like Pee Wee Herman or Malcolm X.
Roger Stone: StoneZone's 2011 Best and Worst Dressed Roger Stone 2012
hernesheir commented on the word pull-off
Common banjo noting technique.
October 12, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word pull-off
Noting technique employed by players of the guitar, banjo, fiddle, and other stringed instruments.
June 10, 2010