[Vocabulary] actions we can do with a car

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dilodi83

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Can you tell me if the definion of these verbs about what to do with a car is correct, please?

to pull up: It's when maybe there's a problem or for whatever reason I've got to stop the car. In this sense, we could say that "pull up" is a synonym of "stop".

to pull in: If I pull in somewhere with my car, I have to drive in a lay-by or near a gas station, so I get off the road where I'm in and I park the car in another place.

to pull over: It's when I need to park the car at the side of the road for a short time, but without entering a lay-off or something; it's simply to stop the car at the edge of the road.

to pull off: It has got the same meaning of "to pull over". Is this correct?

What do you think about these definitions? Are they correct?
Any other phrasal verbs we can use with a car?
 

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Any other phrasal verbs we can use with a car?

The ones that immediately spring to mind, I would not recommend you to use ;-) (basically expletives typical of "road rage").
 

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I can't wait to hear them :) come on! :)
 

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Anyone who can help me with this?
 

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Anyone who can help me with this?
I think your definitions are pretty good, although almost every one of them could be used to cover each situation. For example, one could potentially pull up/over or off at a petrol (gas) station.
 

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...and, of course, one could pull out onto the main road, or pull away from the kerb or the traffic, or pull back from the edge of the precipice....
 

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"Pull up" is not used that way in the US. Here it means to draw alongside someone. She pulled up next to me at the traffic light.
 

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In BrE we can say that we pulled up at the traffic lights (not alongside anyone necessarily).
 

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Perfect...thanks guys...would you be kind to suggest any other actions we can do with a car? I'm trying to improve and enhance my vocabulary about the verbs connected to the car and the actions people can do with and in a car... and I think I can do it just through the help of native speakers who can suggest phrases or ways of saying that it's quite unlilkely to find into a dictionary...I'm also looking for colloquial expression I might hear across England or the Us...
 
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