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pull-up
pull-up
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Person doing a pull-up
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Noun
- An exercise done for strengthening the arms and back in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar.
- 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii
- I did lots of push-ups and pull-ups, and my only regret is that I stopped doing them as a young adult when I finally got to work out in health clubs instead of my basement or garage.
- 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii
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an exercise done for strengthening the arms and back
Verb
pull-up (third-person singular simple present pull-ups, present participle pull-upping, simple past and past participle pull-upped)
- To do a pull-up or pull oneself up similarly.
- 2012, The Young Despondents. Jason M. Burns.
- With a sleek yet muscular build, Nick out pullupped everyone during physical fitness week
- 2010, Designation Gold Rogue Warrior. Richard Marcinko
- From there, things were easy—well, relatively easy. I stood on the rail, reached up, grasped thefloorof the balcony above, fingertip pull-upped onto the lip, found another four inches of finger purchase, raised myself high enough
- 2012, The Young Despondents. Jason M. Burns.