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Pull off

verb, slang

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Verb
  1. 1
    To remove by pulling. transitive

    "Pull off old blossoms so that the plant will keep flowering."

  2. 2
    pull or pull out sharply wordnet
  3. 3
    To achieve, accomplish, succeed at (something difficult). idiomatic, transitive

    "to pull off a heist"

  4. 4
    remove by drawing or pulling wordnet
  5. 5
    To turn off (a road onto the side of the road, or onto another road). ambitransitive

    "(transitive) After about a mile, we pulled off the main road onto a dirt track."

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  1. 6
    cause to withdraw wordnet
  2. 7
    To begin moving and then move away; to pull away. intransitive

    "As the police approached, the car pulled off and sped away into the distance."

  3. 8
    be successful; achieve a goal wordnet
  4. 9
    To masturbate manually. reflexive, slang, transitive, usually, vulgar

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