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pull a Homer

pull a Homer verb: to succeed despite idiocy.

Verb

pull a Homer (third-person singular simple present pulls a Homer, present participle pulling a Homer, simple past and past participle pulled a Homer)

  1. (humorous, slang) To succeed despite idiocy.

pull a Homer meaning in Bengali

pull a Homer in Bengali

নির্বুদ্ধিতা সত্ত্বেও সফল হওয়া

Forms of pull a Homer

third-person singular presentpulls a Homer
present participlepulling a Homer
past participlepulled a Homer
pastpulled a Homer

Origin of pull a Homer

From pull (“to copy or emulate the actions associated with”). Coined in the Simpsons episode "Homer Defined", after the regular character Homer who stops a nuclear meltdown via eeny, meeny, miny, moe.

Questions about pull a Homer

What does pull a Homer mean?
Pull a Homer means to succeed despite idiocy.
What is pull a Homer in Bengali?
Pull a Homer in Bengali is নির্বুদ্ধিতা সত্ত্বেও সফল হওয়া. See Pull a Homer meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is pull a Homer?
Pull a Homer is a verb.
What is the past tense of pull a Homer?
The past tense of pull a Homer is pulled a Homer.

Words near pull a Homer in the dictionary

  1. pulks
  2. pull
  3. pull a face
  4. pull a fast one
  5. pull a few strings
  6. pull a Homer
  7. pull a lever
  8. pull a permit
  9. pull a rabbit from a hat
  10. pull a rabbit out of a hat
  11. pull a sickie

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pull a Homer (page history and authors); pull a Homer (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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