pull down v.
1. (Aus./UK Und.) to steal.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Dict. of the Flash or Cant Lang. 167: I speeled to the crib, where I found Jim had been pulling down sawney for grub. | |
| Magistrate’s Assistant (3rd edn) 446: To steal from shop doors – to pull down. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | gloss. in Occurence Book of York River Lockup in (1999) 37: I pulled down a fan and a roll of snow. | |
| Sydney Sl. Dict. 9/2: Dick went pulling down sawney for grub last week, when a cop pinched him. He’s gone in the country for a rest. Dick went stealing bacon from shop-doors for food last week, when a policeman arrested him. He’s gone to jail for one year. |
2. to provide (with).
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘Fine Little Mama’ 🎵 She’s my red-hot mama / And she sure can pull me down. |
3. (also pull) to earn, usu. money, e.g. I pulled down £500.
| Tales of the Ex-Tanks 193: Didn’t pull down a dollar from one of them. | |
| Boss 108–9: Your instinct is to pull down each day’s beef each day. | |
| Knocking the Neighbors 154: She was not pulling down any Ribbons at Beauty Shows. | |
| Day Book (Chicago) 15 Aug. 24/2: He pulls down a salary of $6,000 a week. | |
| ‘The Mixer’ in Man with Two Left Feet 75: They aren’t keen on dogs here unless they’ve pulled down enough blue ribbons to sink a ship, and mongrels [...] don’t last long. | |
| Hand-made Fables 204–6: If a Pin-Head in a Plaid Ulster could take a Hoodoo Location in a Comatose Neighbourhood and pull down real Velvet, it was a Cinch that he had a sure-fire Commodity. | |
| Babbitt (1974) 70: He is now pulling down $5,000 as an Osteo-vitalic Physician. | |
| Pittsburgh Courier (PA) 11 Jan. 7/1: Jay C. Higginbotham [...] is now [...] pulling down less than fifty. | |
| in Groucho Letters (1967) 183: I have never pulled down any dough that has ever remotely touched this figure. | |
| On the Waterfront (1964) 49: A lot of young bums were getting away with murder to pull down the $4,000 television money. | |
| Brown Girl, Brownstones (1960) 39: You can know all the accounting there is, these people still not gon have you up in their fancy office and pulling down the same money as them. | |
| (con. 1930s) Lawd Today 154: She had a damn good job and was pulling down fifteen bucks a week. | |
| Cutter and Bone (2001) 21: He himself in his mid-twenties had been pulling down twenty-five thousand a year. | |
| ‘Missing Person’ in Back in the World 32: If she’d had her way he’d still be in the navy, pulling down a hundred and forty dollars a month. | |
| Permanent Midnight 72: A succession of Armani’d mooks who pulled down all kinds of money. | |
| Observer 18 July 23: He is now [...] pulling down a salary bigger than his previous one. | |
| Robbers (2001) 239: Nuthin like a good mystery, pardner. Why we pull down the big bucks. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Be My Enemy 127: I’m not sure what the fuck I do either, but I’m pulling down six figures, so it must be pretty important. | |
| On the Bro’d 2023: ‘Think about the mad cash you could pull down’. |
4. to win money.
| Checkers 43: I’m a goat if it did n’t win, and I pulled down a thousand. | |
| Complete Guide to Gambling 688: Pull Down – to take down or pocket all or part of a wager just won. |