pullout
pullout noun: a withdrawal, especially of armed forces.
Noun
pullout (countable and uncountable, plural pullouts)
- A withdrawal, especially of armed forces.
- The change of the flight of an aircraft from a dive to level or climbing flight.
- An object, such as a newspaper supplement, that can be pulled out from something else.
- Synonym of liftout (“quotation given special visual treatment”).
- Synonyms:
- liftout
- An area by the side of a road where vehicles may temporarily stop in safety. Typical pullouts allow drivers and passengers to safely exit the vehicle but rarely have additional amenities.
- Capt. Greg Baarts with the CHP Northern Division says information pulled from the SUV's software shows the vehicle was stopped at the highway pullout before it accelerated straight off the cliff.2018 April 1, Paul Elias, Phoung Le, “CHP: Deadly SUV Cliff Crash May Have Been Intentional”, in www.usnews.com, Associated Press; U.S. News and World Report, retrieved 05 Apr 2018
- Synonyms:
- turnout
- The ending of a period of surfing by navigating the surfboard into or over the back of a wave.
- Here's a pretty strange pullout. An "El Rollo." When Corky does something strange, everyone for 50 yards knows all about it.1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer
- Most pullouts, then and today, are done by simply angling or pivoting the board up and over the wave crest.2005, Matt Warshaw, The Encyclopedia of Surfing, page 482
- The coitus interruptus method of birth control.
Synonyms of pullout
Forms of pullout
| plural | pullouts |
|---|---|
| alternative form | pull-out |
Origin of pullout
Deverbal from pull out.
Questions about pullout
- What does pullout mean?
- Pullout means a withdrawal, especially of armed forces.
- What part of speech is pullout?
- Pullout is a noun.
- What is the plural of pullout?
- The plural of pullout is pullouts.
Words near pullout in the dictionary
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