pull finger in English

Forms: pulls finger [present, singular, third-person], pulling finger [participle, present], pulled finger [participle, past], pulled finger [past] [Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} pull finger (third-person singular simple present pulls finger, present participle pulling finger, simple past and past participle pulled finger)

[Show JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pulls finger",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulling finger",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled finger",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled finger",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "pull finger (third-person singular simple present pulls finger, present participle pulling finger, simple past and past participle pulled finger)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "2011, André Brink, Devil's Valley\nIt was time to pull finger, get down to facts."
        },
        {
          "text": "2012, Owen Marshall, Harlequin Rex\nLet's pull finger and get this show on the road."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of pull one's finger out (“stop wasting time; get to work”)."
      ],
      "id": "en-pull_finger-en-verb-Zz-k1hOV",
      "links": [
        [
          "pull one's finger out",
          "pull one's finger out#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "extra": "stop wasting time; get to work",
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "pull one's finger out"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pull finger"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pulls finger",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulling finger",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled finger",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled finger",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "pull finger (third-person singular simple present pulls finger, present participle pulling finger, simple past and past participle pulled finger)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "2011, André Brink, Devil's Valley\nIt was time to pull finger, get down to facts."
        },
        {
          "text": "2012, Owen Marshall, Harlequin Rex\nLet's pull finger and get this show on the road."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of pull one's finger out (“stop wasting time; get to work”)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pull one's finger out",
          "pull one's finger out#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "extra": "stop wasting time; get to work",
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "pull one's finger out"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pull finger"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-06-07 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-06-01 using wiktextract (e79dea5 and 7f4db16). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.

"pull finger" meaning in English

Verb