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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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crossfit pull-ups

a meritless and fraudulent set(s)/repetitions of pronated pull-ups performed by exploiting the momentum gained through kipping cloaked as thoracic convulsions executed in an elliptical path on a standard, fixed, elevated, horizontal pull-up bar; it is often erroneously promoted by CrossFitters as a "functional movement."
Those CrossFit clowns love to claim that their CrossFit pull-ups are better for strength as a (purportedly) "functional" exercise when, in fact, it doesn't even measure true upper body strength since it relies on momentum - unlike a true or traditional pronated pull-up which is, when executed properly, a superior closed kinetic chain compound movement and a more appropriate indicator of upper body strength since the primary muscles involved (i.e., latissimus dorsi, trapezius, and biceps brachii) are forced to work (concentrically and eccentrically) WITHOUT utilizing momentum.
by matty tsunami April 29, 2024
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Pull Up Them Grades

A deragatory roast that usually implies you have low grades.and you need to higher them typically used by very studious people aswell
Pull up them grades let’s go yes sirrr.
by Poor man Antoine April 29, 2019
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Pull up with a toilet

To pull up with a toilet means to fight someone one on one, to say “Pull up with a plunger” means to jump someone or fight in a group
Man, ima pull up with a toilet on his ass
by AsuraPatel March 21, 2021
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Pull Ups Kid

Probably that one kid in your Gym class that you didn’t even know existed but then he randomly joins your group and now you and your friends are stuck with him. Then he starts talking about how many pull ups he can do and won’t stop doing them and keeps showing off only to do 3 pull ups.
Woah Pull Ups Kid...Wow that’s a lot of pull ups wow I care so much
by CheeseWithSauce January 7, 2021
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