pull-up — English Dictionary

Noun

1. 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.

   Related words

   pull-up boypush-upsit-up

   Examples

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   DeWitt compared the average number of pullups college men can do grasping the bar with palms toward the face (supinated) and palms away from the face (pronated), and with kicking and kipping while raising the body. The subjects averaged 2.08 more pullups with the palms supinated than with the palms pronated.

   2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii I did lots of push-ups and pull-ups, and my only regret is that I stopped doing them as a young adult when I finally got to work out in health clubs instead of my basement or garage.

Verb

1. To do a pull-up or pull oneself up similarly.

   Examples

   2012, The Young Despondents. Jason M. Burns. With a sleek yet muscular build, Nick out pullupped everyone during physical fitness week

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   2010, Designation Gold Rogue Warrior. Richard Marcinko From there, things were easy—well, relatively easy. I stood on the rail, reached up, grasped the floor of the balcony above, fingertip pull-upped onto the lip, found another four inches of finger purchase, raised myself high enough […]

Noun

1. Synonym of training pants (“undergarments worn by incontinent people, typically infants, to aid in toilet training during the transition between diapers and underpants”).

Noun

1. A pull-up resistor.

Noun

1. a roadside cafe especially for lorry drivers

   Synonyms

   pull-in

   Broader terms

   cafecoffeehousecoffee shopcoffee bar

2. an arm exercise performed by pulling yourself up on a horizontal bar until your chin is level with the bar

   Synonyms

   chin-up

   Broader terms

   arm exercise