pull over

1. 1.

   steer a vehicle to the side of the road

   “The car pulled over when the ambulance approached at high speed”

   Broadersteer

Questions about pull over

What does pull over mean?

pull over means "steer a vehicle to the side of the road".

Is pull over a common word?

pull over is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.