pull up

verb pulls up · pulling up · pulled up

1. idiomatic, transitive To move or bring (something) to the present location in its upright position. Pull up a chair and sit down.
2. idiomatic, transitive To fetch for display on a screen. Pull up that website for me; it sounds quite interesting.
3. especially, idiomatic, of a vehicle To arrive at a halt; to approach and stop at a particular point. Pull up to that curb slowly; you don't want to scratch that other car.
4. broadly, especially, idiomatic, slang, of a vehicle To travel somewhere, especially to meet someone else; to come to. I'm pulling up to the club tonight, want to join?

   Similar: meet up, roll up, link up, reach

5. idiomatic To cause (a horse) to stop when riding.
6. idiomatic To cause (a person or vehicle) to stop. "Well, sir, we were always pulled up on Thursday; practically always, you may say. It got to be quite a saying among those who used the train regular; they used to look out for it. […] I suppose it wasn't thought worth while to alter us in the time-table, so we most always had to wait outside Three
7. idiomatic, rare To improve; to get better; to lift one's game. A local doctor had bought one canvas and but for that lucky chance he would have been out of pocket. Now he was muttering grumpily at Edmund, "Have to get something better this trip, Edmund. Got to pull up somehow or buyers will be turnin' us down. Sales been gettin' worse and worse these last years
8. ambitransitive, idiomatic To raise (the nose of an aircraft) Terrain, terrain! Pull up! Pull up!
9. idiomatic To adopt a posture with straight back and shoulders down, but ribcage and sternum lifted.
10. idiomatic, transitive To intentionally take a racehorse out of a race, usually as a result of the horse's tiredness or concerns of potential injury (in reference to the act of pulling up the reins).
11. Australia, idiomatic To fare after a party, an illness, or a strenuous effort; to attempt to recover. How'd you pull up this morning?
12. UK, idiomatic To admonish or criticize someone for their actions. At 4pm, the phone went. It was The Sun: 'We hear your daughter's been expelled for cheating at her school exams...' She'd made a remark to a friend at the end of the German exam and had been pulled up for talking. As they left the exam room, she muttered that the teacher was a 'twat'. He heard and f
13. idiomatic Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, up. In this May 20, 2006, Barbaro is steadied[sic, "by" is missing] a track worker as jockey Edgar Prado looks on after he pulled up the horse with a fractured right rear leg during the 131st running of the Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.
14. ambitransitive, idiomatic To lift (something or oneself) upwards or vertically. I pull up the lever when I want to make my car go into first gear.
15. idiomatic To pull forward. Pull the car up a little so you don't block his driveway.

Opposite: push over