Pull-back Definition

verb

Used other than as an idiom. To pull in a backwards direction.

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To retreat.

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To retract.

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To pull in order to reveal something underneath or behind.
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(sports) To pass (the ball) into a position further from the attacking goal line.

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noun

(sports) An attacking pass from the wing into a position further from the attacking goal line.

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Pull-back Sentence Examples

  • Our goals are to push forward, not pull back.

  • This retractor-muscle, indeed, serves to pull back with great rapidity the extruded proboscis, and is aided in its action by the musculature of the head.

  • This false perception of descent may cause the pilot to pull back on the stick, which would reduce airspeed.

  • Toward the end of my travels I felt a pull back toward science and to my childhood fascination with space.

  • Captain Phillips our Officer must have thought that's enough and gave the order to cease firing and pull back.

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