To be loyal to one organization or company for a long time, only to abruptly switch to the opposing organization or company.
Named for PA Senator Arlen Specter who switched from Republican to Democrat after 20 years as a Republican.
Bob: Did you hear about George?
Phil: No, what happened?
Bob: George was caught pulling a specter. He just traded his Impala for a Ford Taurus.
Eric Mangini is the current Cleveland Brown's coach and he once said that "He was going to take the Browns to the Super Bowl." While this is never going to happen it has become a popular euphemism for dropping a duece. It also provides a nice cover when talking around girls as they do not typically know who eric mangini is.
Guy 1: Bro i got to pull a mangini if you know what i mean.
Guy 2: Ya i got ya
Girl 1: What does that mean?
Guy 1: shhhh, go make me a sandwhich.
You talk shit about someone and then your friends tell you the person is right behind you.
Abby: That Sylvia girl is such a freak!
Stephanie: You realize she's right behind you... Way to pull a peyton
To suddenly disappear and become unavailable from all forms of human communication right before and during a scheduled meeting/event thereby missing the meeting/call/event.
Mostly used in a work environment but can be adapted to casual settings.
Looks like Jacob once again pulled-a-rishi, I did remind him about the daily standup meeting.
It's so common of pat to pull-a-rishi from time to time, even when we have important meetings.
We should fire the developer for pulling-a-rishi, it only because of his exceptional work that we continue working with him.
to declare bankruptcy in order to get out of financial obligations.
Purdue Pharma decided to pull a Trump and screw over those people from the class-action lawsuit!
When you get fucked up on drugs so bad that by the end of the night your crying and then you gotta get taken home by your sober friend with a car and your sitting in the back seat crying the whole way home slurring half your words, making it extremely awkward for your mate because your mate doesnt know what to say back because your crying and stuff.
You: im sorrehhh mann, ive never done this befoorrree
Your mate:..."yeah"....*thinks to himself* god this is awkward, hes totally pulling a cam on me.
V. To stall or delay an event from happening for nearly an indefinate amount of time
Hist. Inspired from the currently longest recorded match during the 2010 Wimbledon
A: "what did you think of the presentation"
B: "i thought he was trying to pull an isner until lunch break"