Usually means: Upper body exercise using bars.
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  1. pull-up: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pull-up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pull-up: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pull-up, pull-up: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pull-up: Vocabulary.com
  6. pull-up: Wordnik
  7. pull-up: Wiktionary
  8. pull-up: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. pull-up: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. pull-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. pull-up: Dictionary.com
  12. Pull-up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. pull-up: Rhymezone
  14. pull-up: Free Dictionary
  15. pull-up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. pull-up: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. pull-up: Legal dictionary

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  1. pull-up: Encyclopedia

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

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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noun:  An exercise done for strengthening the arms and back in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar. Palms may be facing in any direction.
verb:  To do a pull-up or pull oneself up similarly.
noun:  Synonym of training pants (“undergarments worn by incontinent people, typically infants, to aid in toilet training during the transition between diapers and underpants”).
noun:  (electronics) A pull-up resistor.

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