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Pulls a stupid punk, say, to his feet (5,2)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

yanks up

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'his feet' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether it can be defined by this definition.

'pulls a stupid punk say' is the wordplay.
'punk say' can be anagrammed to 'YANKS UP'.
But, I'm unsure how the anagram is indicated.

'to' is the link.

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