# pullout

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #47,852

## Definitions
1. A withdrawal, especially of armed forces.
2. The change of the flight of an aircraft from a dive to level or climbing flight.
3. An object, such as a newspaper supplement, that can be pulled out from something else.
4. Synonym of liftout (“quotation given special visual treatment”).
5. An area by the side of a road where vehicles may temporarily stop in safety. Typical pullouts allow drivers and passengers to safely exit the vehicle but rarely have additional amenities.
6. The ending of a period of surfing by navigating the surfboard into or over the back of a wave.
7. The coitus interruptus method of birth control.

## Etymology
Deverbal from pull out.

## Common misspellings (8)
`plulout`, `ppullout`, `pullotu`, `pulloutt`, `pulluot`, `pulolut`, `pulout`, `upllout`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/pullout