"pull a lever" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "In reference to older voting machines where a lever was pulled to vote for each candidate choice.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pulls a lever",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulling a lever",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled a lever",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled a lever",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "pull a lever (third-person singular simple present pulls a lever, present participle pulling a lever, simple past and past participle pulled a lever)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "53 47",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, lever."
      ],
      "id": "en-pull_a_lever-en-verb-Bjsxhe8S",
      "links": [
        [
          "pull",
          "pull#English"
        ],
        [
          "lever",
          "lever#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "53 47",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Mark Crispin Miller, Fooled Again",
          "text": "She tried to pull a lever for the mainstream candidate and it wouldn't work.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Stephen E. Strang, God, Trump, and the 2020 Election",
          "text": "You may dislike much about a candidate, but God calls us to make the hard choice and pull a lever for one or the other—even if it means voting less for a candidate than against another.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To vote."
      ],
      "id": "en-pull_a_lever-en-verb-LmK5wlqO",
      "links": [
        [
          "vote",
          "vote"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, transitive) To vote."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pull a lever"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "In reference to older voting machines where a lever was pulled to vote for each candidate choice.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pulls a lever",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulling a lever",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled a lever",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled a lever",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "pull a lever (third-person singular simple present pulls a lever, present participle pulling a lever, simple past and past participle pulled a lever)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, lever."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pull",
          "pull#English"
        ],
        [
          "lever",
          "lever#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Mark Crispin Miller, Fooled Again",
          "text": "She tried to pull a lever for the mainstream candidate and it wouldn't work.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Stephen E. Strang, God, Trump, and the 2020 Election",
          "text": "You may dislike much about a candidate, but God calls us to make the hard choice and pull a lever for one or the other—even if it means voting less for a candidate than against another.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To vote."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "vote",
          "vote"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, transitive) To vote."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pull a lever"
}