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pulled off

pulled off is the simple past and past participle of pull off.

Meaning of pull off

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To remove by pulling.
    • Pull off old blossoms so that the plant will keep flowering.
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To achieve, accomplish, succeed at (something difficult).
    • to pull off a heist
  3. (ambitransitive) To turn off (a road onto the side of the road, or onto another road).
    • (transitive) After about a mile, we pulled off the main road onto a dirt track.
  4. (intransitive) To begin moving and then move away; to pull away.
    • As the police approached, the car pulled off and sped away into the distance.
  5. (reflexive, slang, transitive, usually, vulgar) To masturbate manually.

Questions about pulled off

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

Words near pulled off in the dictionary

  1. pulled for
  2. pulled in
  3. pulled in one's horns
  4. pulled into
  5. pulled my finger
  6. pulled off
  7. pulled on
  8. pulled one over
  9. pulled one's finger out
  10. pulled one's finger out of one's arse
  11. pulled one's hair out

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