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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pullover
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
white
▪ One of the two, wearing a white pullover, was with his father and a lawyer, Lawrence Lee.
▪ The sparkling white pullover and newly pressed black corduroys were designed to project an image of calm sophistication.
▪ She was dressed in tight jeans and a loose white pullover.
▪ Suzy peeled off her white pullover.
■ VERB
wear
▪ One of the two, wearing a white pullover, was with his father and a lawyer, Lawrence Lee.
▪ The following morning you washed the shirt you'd been wearing, the pullover and the trousers.
▪ He was wearing a long woolly pullover with hedgehogs all over it, nothing else.
▪ I wear long-sleeved pullovers and hope no one will notice that only the cuffs and collars of my shirts have been pressed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He had a black V-neck pullover.
▪ He turned up shortly after ten in gumboots, corduroys, pullover and the trusty green weatherproof.
▪ I am wearing overalls and a striped pullover I hate because it reminds me of the clothes men wear on chain gangs.
▪ Police recovered a red pullover and handgun from the scene.
▪ She was buxom, and the rust-red pullover she wore was not designed to minimize the fact.
▪ The last thing I knitted was a red pullover for Uncle which I have yet.
▪ Waistcoats or sleeveless pullovers sometimes worn with suits, though you couldn't see them when the top button was done up.
▪ Wait until she saw the elbows of his pullover.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pullover

1871, originally of shoes, from pull (v.) + over (adv.). As a noun, from 1875 as a kind of hat cover; 1925 as a type of sweater (short for pullover sweater, 1912), so called in reference to the method of putting it on.

Wiktionary
pullover

n. 1 A sweater that must be put on by pulling it over the head; a sweater without buttons or a zipper in front 2 (context weightlifting English) An exercise performed lying on the back in which the arms are extended behind the head and exertion lifts the weight above the head.

WordNet
pullover

n. a sweater that is put on by pulling it over the head [syn: slipover]

Wikipedia
Pullover

Pullover, pull-over or pull over may refer to:

  • Sweater or hoodie, a piece of clothing "pulled over" the head instead of buttoned or zipped-up
  • Pullover (TV series), early-1980s UK children's television programme
  • Pullover Productions, UK producer of Pullover TV series
  • a scenic overlook, road shoulder or layby where a motorist can pull over out of through-traffic lanes
  • Pullover (exercise), a weight-training exercise
  • a move in gymnastics that consists pulling oneself up and then over a bar with two hands, so that the arms are straight and the waist is in line with the bar, keeping the body straight and vertical
  • a traffic stop, a practice by police enforcement patrolling roadways
  • "Pull Over", song on 2000 Trina album Da Baddest Bitch
Pullover (exercise)

The pullover is an exercise that is performed with either a dumbbell or a barbell. Pullovers can be made to affect either the chest or the back depending on how wide the grip is (barbell) and the position of the shoulders. A research done on the pullover movement using a barbell suggested more effect on the Pectoralis major muscle as compare to the Latisimus dorsi.

Usage examples of "pullover".

In the neighbouring Cagliari pits a figure clad in a dark roll-neck pullover and dark leather jacket stood hidden in a shadowed corner.

So on the evening before the 26th of January, there was my table covered with brand-new warm Olympic underwear, ski pants, a couple of pullovers, a windbreaker and, last but not least, a pair of skis with bindings, and next to them the boots.

The men were wearing pretty much what anybody would wear on a Saturday night to a hunting lodge in the boondocks: anything from a sports jacket like his own with a light pullover under it to a red-and-black checked flannel shirt or a snowmobiling outfit.

In contrast to the coarse ill-fitting clothes of Valeri, Bower was wearing a well-tailored fawn Saxony check suit, soft yellow cotton shirt, Wykehamist tie and yellow pullover.

Elegant in formal, permanently pressed walking shorts and casual pullover, Follingston-Heath escorted Mina Gelmann through the double doorway designed to keep marauding deer, moose, and chipmunks from devastating the lush flower beds which surrounded Wing C of the Village, and out onto the gravel path that led down to the shore of the lake.

Thesiger was frequently to be found in corduroy trousers or a rough woollen pullover or with a tatty old cravat tucked around his neckthe blue battledress with its insignia of rank the only concession he made.

A guard in a uniform of human skin, black buck jacket with carious yellow teeth buttons, an elastic pullover shirt in burnished Indian copper, adolescentnordic-sun-tan slacks, sandals from calloused foot soles of young Malayan farmer, an ash-brown scarf knotted and tucked in the shirt.

He looked dashing in a white shirt, gray pants, and my favorite wool sweater, a crewneck pullover the color of oatmeal.

She rode in Horseclans garb of the ancient cut —baggy trousers tucked into soft, felt boots, wide dagger belt mounting a silver-hilted dirk, tight-sleeved pullover shirt which for all its bagginess still could not conceal the proud upthrust of her mature breasts, drooping velvet cap.

She rode in Horseclans garb of the ancient cutbaggy trousers tucked into soft, felt boots, wide dagger belt mounting a silver-hilted dirk, tight-sleeved pullover shirt which for all its bagginess still could not conceal the proud upthrust of her mature breasts, drooping velvet cap.

We'll do bench presses, curls, pullovers, flyes, some shrugs, some sit-ups.

Two men in identical yellow V-neck pullovers sat at a table by the window and stared out in silence, sipping from time to time at identical bloody marys.

He was wearing a silvery-blue pullover that set off his eyes and a dark blue pair of cargo shorts.

He wore rubber-soled deck shoes, pressed white slacks and a navy pullover.

Camera films and face cream, and a cashmere pullover the colour of violets.