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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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pull up big

To come through with all that smack you've been talking
If I see Susie at the club tonight she better pull up big and say something to my face since she can't stop subtweeting me
by Hipporope December 29, 2014
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pull up jumper

A type of shot in basketball. Many players dribbles and then takes the pull up jumper, for example D Rose bihh
Roseee with the pull up jumper!
by D.roseee November 27, 2016
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Scandinavian Light Disco and Pull-up Bar

A noun referring to that moment when after you take your cousin, disembowel her, and use her viscera as a sexual lubricant while sodomizing her your mother walks in and says "I don't even know who you are anymore" and you reply "You probably didn’t recognize me because of the red arm".
Seamus never felt an ounce of regret, even right after his first Scandinavian Light Disco and Pull-up Bar.
by Bloxt July 28, 2017
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Pull up and wreck

When you pull up somewhere and wreck someone by leaving them unable to respone. For exampel: to WIN an argument.
Woah you GOT wrecked!
Imma pull up and own this place!
Imma pull up and wreck on this party!
by Aitg.1.78. January 7, 2019
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