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pulled a lever

pulled a lever is the simple past and past participle of pull a lever.

Meaning of pull a lever

Verb

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

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, lever.
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To vote.
    • She tried to pull a lever for the mainstream candidate and it wouldn't work.2007, Mark Crispin Miller, Fooled Again

Questions about pulled a lever

What is pulled a lever the simple past and past participle of?
Pulled a lever is the simple past and past participle of pull a lever.

Words near pulled a lever in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pulled a lever (page history and authors); pull a lever (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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