pullout

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pullout

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Deverbal from pull out.

noun pullouts · pull-out

  1. countable, uncountable A withdrawal, especially of armed forces.
  2. countable, uncountable The change of the flight of an aircraft from a dive to level or climbing flight.
  3. countable, uncountable An object, such as a newspaper supplement, that can be pulled out from something else.
  4. countable, uncountable Synonym of liftout (“quotation given special visual treatment”).

    Similar: liftout

  5. countable, uncountable 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.

    Similar: turnout

  6. countable, uncountable 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.
  7. countable, uncountable The coitus interruptus method of birth control.

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noun the coitus interruptus method of birth control

Españolsacarla, terminar fuera, marcha atrás

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"pullout." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/pullout. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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pullout. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/pullout

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"pullout." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/pullout.

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@misc{pullout_2026,
  title = {pullout},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pullout},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}