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Pull Up Short

Definition: Pull Up Short

Pull Up Short

Verb

1. Stop abruptly; "The police car pulled up short and then turned around fast".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Modern Translation: Pull Up Short

Language		Translations for "pull up short"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		leblokkol (to pull up short), hirtelen megáll (to pull up short, to stop dead, to stop in one's tracks, to stop short), hirtelen lefékez (to pull up, to pull up short, to snub). (various references)

Pig Latin		ullpay upay ortshay

Romanian		se opri brusc (fetch up, jib, stop dead, stop short, stop up short). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Pull Up Short

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "h-l-l-o-p-p-r-s-t-u-u"
	-3 letters: outpulls, pullouts.
	-4 letters: hotspur, outpull, outpush, outrush, pullout, pullups, pulpous, sulphur, support.
	-5 letters: hullos, lupous, poults, pullup, pushup, rouths, sprout, stroll, stupor, thorps, thurls, tophus, trolls, trulls, uprush, upshot.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography

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