wirepull
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
wire + pull; see wirepuller.
Verb[edit]
wirepull (third-person singular simple present wirepulls, present participle wirepulling, simple past and past participle wirepulled)
- (transitive, intransitive) To exert an influence on (others) that is felt but not seen.
- 1965, Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts, numbers 86-90, page 5:
- These basic provisions of the 1954 Geneva agreements on Vietnam do not allow the United States to wirepull its lackeys to rig up the so-called Republic of Vietnam.