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pull-throughs

pull-throughs is the plural of pull-through.

Meaning of pull-through

Noun

pull-through (plural pull-throughs)

  1. An exercise in which weight is pulled via a cable passed between the legs.
  2. A length of cord about a metre long with a narrow cylindrical weight at one end and loops at the other. Used for cleaning rifle barrels, by pulling through a piece of cloth.
  3. The trick of apparently cutting the cards while leaving the deck in the same sequence as before.
    • THE PULL-THROUGH is used for a crooked shuffle to keep the cards stacked.1942, Yank, volume 1, numbers 1-45, page 8

Questions about pull-throughs

What is pull-throughs the plural of?
Pull-throughs is the plural of pull-through.

Words near pull-throughs in the dictionary

  1. pull-quote
  2. pull-quotes
  3. pull-tab
  4. pull-tabs
  5. pull-through
  6. pull-throughs
  7. pull-to-publish
  8. pull-up
  9. pull-up bar
  10. pull-up bars
  11. pull-up boy

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