"pull faces" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-pull faces.ogg [Australia] Forms: pulls faces [present, singular, third-person], pulling faces [participle, present], pulled faces [participle, past], pulled faces [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*|head=pull faces}} pull faces (third-person singular simple present pulls faces, present participle pulling faces, simple past and past participle pulled faces)
  1. (idiomatic) To make abnormal facial expressions, especially for amusement or to ridicule another person. Tags: idiomatic Related terms: pull a face
    Sense id: en-pull_faces-en-verb-yurZSOAC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for pull faces meaning in English (1.9kB)

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