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pull your socks up

A term used to tell someone to get down because bullets are going to be fired in their general direction in the immediate future. The general idea behind wording the phrase this way is to let your friend know what is about to happen whilest leaving your helpless, soon to be, victims in the dark.

Used by Bullet-Toothed Tony in the movie "Snatch"
"Avi, pull your socks up!"
by hopeagnsthope313 September 28, 2006
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pull yourself up by your boot straps

literally referring to what Abraham Lincoln (read a few law books he found in a junk barrel, then became a lawyer and later President of The United States and Booker T Washington (learned to read and write as a black apprentice sailor) actually did, this term means:

to legally work, or rather legally to nigger, one's way up the social ladder of one's society in one's zeitgeist using nothing but one's own blood, sweat, toil, common sense, education and street-smarts
son: I don't understand how Abraham Lincoln legally achieved what he did. He was born on a bloody farm.

father: Jordan, just stop blabbering and learn the meaning of the phrase to pull yourself up by your boot straps and you'll do just as well. Now good night.
by Sexydimma May 18, 2012
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Pull the bars up on the crib

And expression used to signify the intention of taking a long nap.
"Man, when I get outta class I am gonna get some chinese food with extra MSG and pull the bars up on the crib."
by Chris Giarraputo December 9, 2004
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Huggies Pull-Ups

a brand of disposable training pants made under the Huggies brand of baby products. The product was first introduced in 1989 and became popular with the phrase "I'm a big kid now!" which is the product's slogan
Huggies Pull-Ups have been distributed in 4 different types which have been intact since 2011. (not counting the renaming of Wetness Liner.)
by SPrice1980 May 8, 2023
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Legendary Pull-Up

Executing a normal pull-up which is finished with the bar touching the chest rather than ending the movement when the chin is over the bar.
Yo that man is going Super Sayan! He just did 5 Legendary Pull-Ups in a row!
by Young King On Point October 17, 2020
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Money Pull Up

“Money pull up” is a practice started in Jamaica which involves the shelling out of money to a dj by party goers for him to replay a particular dancehall or reggae song.
“ Only in Jamaica do you see a money pull up at karaoke
by Speedawf June 12, 2023
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Pull up

Pull up meaning 1: Arrive at this destination

Pull up meaning 2: Fight me
Pull up over here! ;

The boys with spatulas inside John Lewis told them to “Pull Up”.
by Tobias Octagon July 20, 2022
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