pull back
Verb
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Verb
- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see pull, back
- To retreat
- To retract
- (transitive) to pull in order to reveal something underneath or behind.
- 2002 Dennis J. Barton, Cola Wars
- What's more, I pull back the sheets to take a quick but suspicious gander at Bunny, and she's wearing a pair of my briefs.
- 2006, Ruth K. Westheimer, Pierre A. Lehu, Sex for Dummies
- An uncircumcised man should always take special precautions when bathing to pull back the foreskin and clean carefully around the glans.
- 2002 Dennis J. Barton, Cola Wars
- (transitive, sports) To pass (the ball) into a position further from the attacking goal line.
- December 1 2010, Paul Fletcher, BBC News, Ipswich 1-0 West Brom ↗
- Jason Scotland should have scored after Tamas advanced purposefully down the right before pulling the ball back into the path of his team-mate, who shot straight at Myhill.
- December 1 2010, Paul Fletcher, BBC News, Ipswich 1-0 West Brom ↗
- (transitive, sports) To score when the team is losing.
- Feb 19 2007, Al-Jazeera, Stylish Sevilla pull level with faltering Barcelona
- Ronaldinho pulled back a goal for Barca in injury time with a classy free-kick, but it was clearly too little too late to prevent their third Liga defeat.
- Feb 19 2007, Al-Jazeera, Stylish Sevilla pull level with faltering Barcelona
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