Keep
Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.
Pull back
Pull back verb - Pull back or move away or backward.
Both terms in one sentence
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Sylvanas: If you keep poking her, she'll quote her sister Alleria: "Do that again and you'll pull back a stump." She also mentions that she has never been a night elf.
Source: Video Game / Heroes of the Storm - They keep going for so long that their seconds in command gets worried and has the armies pull back, at which point both complain that they could have continued fighting.
Source: Plot-Powered Stamina -
In Real Life, that would be why a man would keep it even in civilization; the intermediate stage, long enough to get into the way but too short to pull back, could be extremely awkward.
Source: Sailor's Ponytail
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