Usually means: Arrive or move closer upward.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word pull up:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. pull-up, pull up: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pull-up, pull up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pull-up: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pull-up, pull-up, pull up: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pull-up: Vocabulary.com
  6. pull-up: Wordnik
  7. pull up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pull-up, pull up: Wiktionary
  9. pull-up: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pull-up: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pull-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. pull-up, pull up: Dictionary.com
  13. Pull Up (Wiz Khalifa song), Pull-up, Pull-up (exercise), Pull up (exercise), Pull up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. pull-up, pull up: Rhymezone
  15. pull-up, pull up: Free Dictionary
  16. pull-up, pull up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. pull-up, pull up: Dictionary/thesaurus
  18. pull up: Vocabulary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pull-up, pull up: Encyclopedia

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

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pull up: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pull-Up: Body Building

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pull up)

verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, up.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To lift upwards or vertically.
verb:  To pull forward.
verb:  (intransitive, aviation) To raise the nose of an aircraft.
verb:  (idiomatic) To fetch for display on a screen.
verb:  (idiomatic, especially of a vehicle) To arrive at a halt; to approach and stop at a particular point.
verb:  (by extension, slang, originally African-American Vernacular) To travel somewhere, especially to meet someone else; to come to.
verb:  (idiomatic) To cause (a horse) to stop when riding.
verb:  (idiomatic) To cause (a person) to stop.
verb:  (idiomatic, British) To admonish or criticize someone for their actions.
verb:  (transitive, horse racing) To intentionally take a racehorse out of a race, usually as a result of the horse's tiredness or concerns of potential injury (in reference to the act of pulling up the reins).
verb:  (rare) To improve; to get better; to lift one's game.
verb:  (idiomatic, Australia) To fare after a party, an illness, or a strenuous effort; to attempt to recover.

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