pulling 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.

   Synonyms:

   jerk off, abuse, bash one out, bate, beat it, beat off, crank one out, fap, frig, goon