Meaning of pin-up | Babel Free

Definitions

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.
   attributive, often
3. A figurehead, a person who represents an idea, cause, etc.
   figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“pin-ups on every wall of their dorm room”

“pin-up girl”

“Damn, she could be a pin-up, for real.”

“She was Nicolas Sarkozy's pin-up for diversity, the first Muslim woman with north African parents to hold⟳ a major French government post⟳. But Rachida Dati has now turned on her own⟳ party elite with such ferocity that some have⟳ suggested she should be expelled from the president's ruling party.”

CEFR level