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pulled over

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

Meaning of pull over

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To come to a stop, and turn off the road (i.e. onto the roadside or hard shoulder).
    • Can you pull over just after the post office? My house is next door.
    Synonyms:
    pull up
  2. (transitive) To command or force someone to drive their vehicle to the side of the road or curb and come to a stop.
    • The cops pulled me over for speeding.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, over.

Questions about pulled over

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

Words near pulled over in the dictionary

  1. pulled out of one's arse
  2. pulled out of one's ass
  3. pulled out of the bag
  4. pulled out of the fire
  5. pulled out of the hat
  6. pulled over
  7. pulled pork
  8. pulled punches
  9. pulled rank
  10. pulled round
  11. pulled short

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