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.”

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