Definition of "pull off"

pull off

verb
third-person singular simple present pulls off, present participle pulling off, simple past and past participle pulled off
1. To remove by pulling.
2. (idiomatic) To achieve; to succeed at something difficult.
  Quotations
  "Oh, I shall pull it off. I shall jolly well have to succeed," said Michael light-heartedly; feeling unusually confident.
  1920, Eric Leadbitter, Rain Before Seven, page 122
  ‘Never thought I'd pull it off. Picked up that colour flick on the water first-rate. Movement, Edmund, damme, got it a treat on that water.’
  1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, page 56
  The preceding year, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the crown prince of Qatar, did a most un-Arab thing: he pulled off a palace coup, taking over the government from his father (who was vacationing in Europe at the time).
  2001 November 18, “What the Muslim World Is Watching”, in The New York Times, retrieved 26 July 2014
  In a frantic ending Blake and Crofts pulled off brilliant tackles and Hennessey a string of saves to keep Montenegro at bay and earn Speed his first qualifying success as Wales manager.
  2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC‎
3. To turn off a road (onto the side of the road, or onto another road).
4. (of a vehicle) To begin moving and then move away; to pull away.
5. (vulgar, slang, transitive) To masturbate.