pull up

verb

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, up.

   “I pull up the lever when I want to make my car go into first gear.”

   “By the 11th, however, feeling between the rival companies had penetrated down to the "lower ranks," for on that day some over-zealous officials of the Midland caused the Lancashire & Yorkshire metals to be pulled up at Methley Junction.”

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, up.

   “Pull up a bench and have a seat.”

   “pull up a chair”

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, up.

   “Terrain, terrain! Pull up! Pull up!”

4. To fetch for display on a screen.

   “Pull up that website for me; it sounds quite interesting.”

5. 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.”

   “We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine.[…]As we reached the lodge we heard the whistle, and we backed up against one side of the platform as the train pulled up at the other.”

6. To arrive at a halt; to approach and stop at a particular point.

   “I'm pulling up to the club tonight, want to join?”

   “You can always pull up to your favorite national chain such as Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts who is offering a free cup with any purchase on Wednesday or any fast food restaurant.”

7. To cause (a horse) to stop when riding.
8. 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 Deep tunnel for a west-bound electric to make good."”

   “"People pull me up in the street to ask if I have room for their son, daughter, sister or cousin to come down to go to school[.]"”

9. 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 flipped⁠—a pretty stupid thing to do, knowing the kids were tired and tense after exams. Instead of dropping it, the teacher complained to the Head and Deb was carpeted.”

   “My coursework began to suffer and my parents pulled me up on it and said we are not paying for you to get off your head every night.”

10. 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).

    “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.”

11. 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."”

12. To fare after a party, an illness, or a strenuous effort; to attempt to recover.

    “How'd you pull up this morning?”

13. To adopt a posture with straight back and shoulders down, but ribcage and sternum lifted.