pullout

plural pullouts · alternative pull-out

1. countableuncountableA withdrawal, especially of armed forces.
2. countableuncountableThe change of the flight of an aircraft from a dive to level or climbing flight.
3. countableuncountableAn object, such as a newspaper supplement, that can be pulled out from something else.
4. countableuncountablemediaSynonym of liftout (“quotation given special visual treatment”).

   Synonyms: liftout

5. countableuncountableAn area by the side of a road where vehicles may temporarily stop in safety. Typical pullouts allow drivers and passengers to safely exit the vehicle but rarely have additional amenities.

   Capt. Greg Baarts with the CHP Northern Division says information pulled from the SUV's software shows the vehicle was stopped at the highway pullout before it accelerated straight off the cliff.

   2018 April 1, Paul Elias, Phoung Le, “CHP: Deadly SUV Cliff Crash May Have Been Intentional”, in www.usnews.com, Associated Press; U.S. News and World Report, retrieved 05 Apr 2018

   Synonyms: turnout

6. countableuncountablehobbiesThe ending of a period of surfing by navigating the surfboard into or over the back of a wave.

   Most pullouts, then and today, are done by simply angling or pivoting the board up and over the wave crest.

   2005, Matt Warshaw, The Encyclopedia of Surfing, page 482

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   Here's a pretty strange pullout. An "El Rollo." When Corky does something strange, everyone for 50 yards knows all about it.

   1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer

   […] Machado, who turns what might seem like a handicap, that lankiness, to rubbery advantage in his sinuous carving and slackly cool pullouts.

   2015, John Engle, Surfing in the Movies: A Critical History, page 131

7. countableuncountableThe coitus interruptus method of birth control.