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pulls over

pulls over is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 pulls over

What is pulls over the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Pulls over is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pull over.

Words near pulls over in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pulls 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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