Meaning

1 senses

  1. (idiomatic)To select at random, or seemingly at random.

Examples

8 sentences

  1. The magician pulled a rabbit out of his hat.

    ruФокусник вытащил из шляпы кролика. — Wezel

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  2. Tom pulled his hat down over his face because he didn't want to be recognized.

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  3. Tom had pulled his hat down over his face because he didn't want to be recognized.

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  4. Tom pulled a rabbit out of his hat.

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  5. Tom pulled his cowboy hat down to conceal his face.

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Forms

pulls out of the hat, pulling out of the hat, pulled out of the hat, pulled out of the hat
Base formpull out of the hat · to pull out of the hat
3rd person singularpulls out of the hat
Present participlepulling out of the hat
Past simplepulled out of the hat
Past participlepulled out of the hat

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypull out of the hat
he, she, itpulls out of the hat

Past simpleLesson

all personspulled out of the hat

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave pulled out of the hat
he, she, ithas pulled out of the hat

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill pull out of the hat

Synonyms

1 synonyms
pull out of the bag

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
pukepullA2pulleypulloverB1pulmonary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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