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Idiom idiom

pull up on


To come to, visit.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.


SIMPLE

“Pull up on me later if you want to hang out.”

CONTEXTUAL

“I am hosting a small party tonight, so feel free to pull up on us whenever you are ready.”

COMPLEX

“After the concert concluded, the artist invited his closest collaborators to pull up on him at the studio for an impromptu recording session.”


From pull up + on. The sense of calling out or criticising an individual is derived from the analogy of police pulling alongside a vehicle to confront or arrest the driver for a suspected transgression.


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  3. 03

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  4. 04

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Last updated August 10, 2026