Word.ws English Dictionary

pull the string

pull the string verb: to throw an off-speed pitch, a change up, to cause the hitter to swing early and miss.

Verb

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

  1. To throw an off-speed pitch, a change up, to cause the hitter to swing early and miss.

Forms of pull the string

third-person singular presentpulls the string
present participlepulling the string
past participlepulled the string
pastpulled the string

Questions about pull the string

What does pull the string mean?
Pull the string means to throw an off-speed pitch, a change up, to cause the hitter to swing early and miss.
What part of speech is pull the string?
Pull the string is a verb.
What is the past tense of pull the string?
The past tense of pull the string is pulled the string.

Words near pull the string in the dictionary

  1. pull the reins in on someone
  2. pull the reins in on something
  3. pull the rug
  4. pull the rug out from under
  5. pull the shutters down
  6. pull the string
  7. pull the trigger
  8. pull the wires
  9. pull the wool over someone's eyes
  10. pull through
  11. pull throughs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pull the string (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “pull the string.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pull_the_string. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.