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pulling a lever

pulling a lever is the present participle and gerund 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 pulling a lever

What is pulling a lever the present participle and gerund of?
Pulling a lever is the present participle and gerund of pull a lever.

Words near pulling a lever in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pulling 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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