"pull the fire alarm" meaning in English

See pull the fire alarm in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: pulls the fire alarm [present, singular, third-person], pulling the fire alarm [participle, present], pulled the fire alarm [participle, past], pulled the fire alarm [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|pull<pulls,pulling,pulled> the fire alarm}} pull the fire alarm (third-person singular simple present ([pulls]) pulls the fire alarm, present participle ([pulling]) pulling the fire alarm, simple past and past participle ([pulled]) pulled the fire alarm)
  1. To cause the fire alarm to go off, by pulling the lever on the fire alarm pull station.
    Sense id: en-pull_the_fire_alarm-en-verb-l9KCW7WB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for pull the fire alarm meaning in English (1.1kB)

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