Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (Can./US) to adopt a tactic for one’s own benefit.

1908

Dly Press (Newport News, VA) 29 Apr. 5/4: ‘I suppose you’re pulling that on me now, because you are going to work me presently for another hat’.

2. (Aus.) to deal with, to test, to tackle.

1919		W.H. Downing Digger Dialects 39: pull-on — Undertake.
1924		(con. WWI) A.G. Pretty Gloss. Sl. [...] in the A.I.F. 1921–1924 (rev. t/s) n.p.: pull on. To undertake.

3. (US black) to flirt.

1934

Z.N. Hurston Jonah’s Gourd Vine (1995) 45: She de one come pullin’ on me.