Usually means: Withdraw or retreat from involvement.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. pull back, pull back, pull back: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. pull-back, pull-back, pull back: Collins English Dictionary
  3. pull back: Vocabulary.com
  4. pull-back: Wordnik
  5. pull back (from sth): Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. pull-back, pull back: Wiktionary
  7. pull back: Dictionary.com
  8. pull back: Rhymezone
  9. pull back: Free Dictionary
  10. pull back: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. pull-back, pull back: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pull back: Legal dictionary
  2. Pull-back, pull back: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pull back: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pull back: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pull back: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pull-back: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pull back, the pull back: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See pull_backs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pull back)

verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, back.
verb:  To retreat.
verb:  (transitive, sports) To pass (the ball) into a position further from the attacking goal line.
verb:  (transitive, sports) To score when the team is losing.

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