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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pin-up
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A pin-up was tacked to the wall with drawing pins, whereas a reproduction print was carefully framed and positioned.
▪ He kept no pin-up on his locker, he was never seen writing a letter of any sort, let alone a love-missive.
▪ The pin-up, Mark, got torn down.
▪ The picture was as flat and uncommunicative as all his pictures and seemed to be an asexual kind of pin-up.
▪ The shop's youngest fixture is a nearly-clothed pin-up.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pin-up

1670s, from pin (v.) + up (adv.). From 1940, in reference to pictures of "winsome young ladies in daring undress" ("Life," May 6, 1940) such as soldiers pinned up on their dugout walls, etc. The thing itself is older than the name. The noun in this sense is recorded from 1943.

Wiktionary
pin-up

n. 1 A photograph, printed in a magazine or other publication, of a sexually attractive person (often nude or provocatively dressed), and intended to be removed and pinned up on a wall. 2 The person so depicted. 3 (context figuratively English) figurehead, person who represents an idea, cause etc.

WordNet
pin-up

n. a very pretty girl who works as a photographer's model [syn: cover girl, lovely]

Wikipedia
Pin-up (disambiguation)

A pin-up or pin-up girl is a model whose mass-produced pictures see wide appeal as popular culture.

Pin-Up or pinup(s) may also refer to:

  • Pin Ups, a 1973 album by David Bowie
  • Pinups (Human Drama album)
  • Pinups Magazine, a triannual artist's publication playing on historical centerfold practice
  • Pin-Up Magazine, a biannual architecture and design magazine
  • Pinups, a band related to Adolescents, and one of their albums

Usage examples of "pin-up".

He was doing very nicely in this heavily populated area, with its regular weddings and a full quota of girls wishful to be photographed as potential pin-up dollies somewhat saucier than the swimsuit beauties of the war.

Cocking an eye at his earnest phiz, which was passable, but no pin-up, I would have said that she was overpricing him.

To show off her pin-up charms to all the other boys of the steenth engineer corps!

So pretty that she was the pin-up girl for many in Store Street Garda station where she was based.

Wires, pipes and dials, the arteries of every boat, filled most of the space, but here and there a full-breasted pin-up or some newly-darned seaboot stockings showed that men lived here, too.

Grandmother saw their bunkies before they could hide their pin-up pictures.

The arguable connexions between pin-ups and pornography and sex and violence: just to clear them up, while Keith is at hand.

There were bright pin-up calendars, promising, after the mild though windy winter, torrid abandon renewed, golden flesh, the heartbreaking wagging cruppers of the bikinied young over the golden beaches.

Which wouldn't have fitted in with my plans at all, she though physically in the pin-up class, being as mushy a character as ever broke biscuit, convinced that the stars are God's daisy chain and that every time a fairy blows its wee nose a baby is born.

He crossed his legs like a Forties pin-up and dangled his Roman sandal.

The graffiti is written in black magic-marker on yellow cards, to which curious pin-ups are attached.