What is "pinup"

Usage examples of "pinup".

An air of sullen hostility met us, brooding heavy over the beaten, unweather-proofed matchboard hovels, decorated if at all with torn oil-company posters and pinup calendars from the year before last.

On consignment, he gave Brad a selection of novelty merchandise that could be peddled at almost any small business: little mechanical wind-up figures, key chains, penlights, punchboards, miniature telescopes with a pinup girl inside, playing cards, movie star pin-back buttons, two-headed nickels, and various other items that could be displayed next to a cash register to prompt impulse buying.

Dogherty and his wife Bobby, CX-WAAF, unchallenged beauty queen of the station at Dungeness, who was well known to look like Betty Grable from behind and Phyllis Dixey from the front and to have a charm, a refreshing impertinence and a contempt for danger unrivalled, I am sure, by either of those famous pinups from Reveille.

The dreams are an endless reel of car wrecks and disaster footage, electric chairs and grisly suicides, syringes and mutilated pinup girls, flying saucers, marble Jacuzzis, pink peppercorns.

Beeton's cabin was typical of what was expected of a young spaceman, though he was only nominally such: the neat military bunk, the foot locker, the shapely pinups on the wall.

It was all girlish gewgaws: pandas and arcade Kewpie dolls, pinups of matinee idols and college pennants on the walls.

Some of these guys had naked pinups on the mud flaps of their tractor trailers, and Brazil was frankly horrified.

She held a pile of discarded paper plates in one hand and a couple of empty plastic cups in the other and wore an emerald knee-length knit dress that showed off the curves of a WWII pinup girl.

Tina walked in at ten o'clock, looking like a pinup girl caught with her clothes on.

She held a pile of discarded paper plates in one hand and a couple of empty plastic cups in the other and wore an emerald knee-length knit dress that showed off the curves of a WW2 pinup girl.

The women on the production line are demanding that we clean out the pinups in the men's locker room.

The walls of the small office were covered with holovision pinups of both men and women.

By the door the screws have their pinups and comic cartoons of judges.

Despite the fact that Janus had been operational for only a matter of months, the place already looked the way that all supplies and stores offices somehow should, with oily fingerprints on the consoles, disorderly piles of notes and requisitions strewn all over cigarette-burned desktops beneath magnetic paperweights, and stained reference charts competing with gaudy pinups for wallpaper.

The washroom was uncommonly small, decorated with pinups from skin magazines Jak had seen before.