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  • noun Alternative form of pull-down.
  • noun juggling A trick done with rings where each ring is pulled down over the head instead of being caught and held in the hand.

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Examples

  • It looks like ABC, per juicy message board rumors, is doing something screwy with the video as it airs in order to fit in more commercials-removing frames after the 2: 3 pulldown, that is.

    CrunchGear 2009

  • I'm assuming I can force PAL output from AVI2DVD - but do I now need to resize the output to fit the PAL TV better and do I still need to use this "pulldown"? and is there anything else to beware of?

    VideoHelp.com Forum 2009

  • Attach a wide bar to the top pulley of a pulldown machine and sit down, adjusting the knee pad to fit snugly against your legs.

    Body by Design Kris Gethin 2011

  • It does some pretty amazing things for a text-based browser, including pulldown menus and mouse support.

    The "Links" text-mode web browser Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • Grab the pulldown bar with your palms facing your torso.

    Body by Design Kris Gethin 2011

  • But seriously: the media (Publicola) should contact the Governor's office for a confirmation on the 2012 pulldown of the viaduct and to find out what the plan is for Seattle to do with the 99 traffic from 2012-2016.

    Tunnel Construction Could Be Delayed One Year « PubliCola 2010

  • It does some pretty amazing things for a text-based browser, including pulldown menus and mouse support.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • Use the pulldown menu on the gallery to access different weeks auto shows

    USATODAY.com 2010

  • What I was hoping for was a pulldown list of the DC properties that could be applied to tags.

    Web Teacher › An RDFa extension for Dreamweaver 2009

  • You can do it en masse by clicking the "edit" icon near the top of the entry (in the blue box, looks like a pencil), then going to the "allow comments" pulldown menu (below the entry text box, to the right) and selecting "locked".

    Odds and Ends grrm 2010

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