In git this would be just a pull, but in Mercurial pull and update are separate operations. I hate having to say "do a pull and update" when telling someone how to grab the latest code, because it's so wordy. Is there a word for "pull and update" I can substitute this with?
(different from alleged "duplicate" question because I'm asking about terminology, not actual commands)
No. You can tell them to do hg pull --update or hg pull -u. You could also make a shell alias that does that and call it something.