Definitions
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- noun 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.
- noun The person so depicted.
- noun figuratively
figurehead , person who represents an idea, cause etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a very pretty girl who works as a photographer's model
Etymologies
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Examples
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But if the term 'pin-up' refers to a flat photograph, then Hendricks is in 3-D.
Cynthia Ellis: Christina Hendricks Discusses the Three Best Things in Life: Jon Hamm, Ryan Gosling, and Pie Cynthia Ellis 2011
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But if the term 'pin-up' refers to a flat photograph, then Hendricks is in 3-D.
Cynthia Ellis: Christina Hendricks Discusses the Three Best Things in Life: Jon Hamm, Ryan Gosling, and Pie Cynthia Ellis 2011
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But if the term 'pin-up' refers to a flat photograph, then Hendricks is in 3-D.
Cynthia Ellis: Christina Hendricks Discusses the Three Best Things in Life: Jon Hamm, Ryan Gosling, and Pie Cynthia Ellis 2011
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But if the term 'pin-up' refers to a flat photograph, then Hendricks is in 3-D.
Cynthia Ellis: Christina Hendricks Discusses the Three Best Things in Life: Jon Hamm, Ryan Gosling, and Pie Cynthia Ellis 2011
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But if the term 'pin-up' refers to a flat photograph, then Hendricks is in 3-D.
Cynthia Ellis: Christina Hendricks Discusses the Three Best Things in Life: Jon Hamm, Ryan Gosling, and Pie Cynthia Ellis 2011
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But if the term 'pin-up' refers to a flat photograph, then Hendricks is in 3-D.
Cynthia Ellis: Christina Hendricks Discusses the Three Best Things in Life: Jon Hamm, Ryan Gosling, and Pie Cynthia Ellis 2011
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One was a Hollywood pin-up who had survived a poor, unhappy childhood to become a worldwide sex symbol married to playwright Arthur Miller.
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I could care more about Calie if she looked a little less pin-up and a little more protective mother.
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Even today, Bronzino's Allegory remains the gallery's most sexually explicit pin-up.
Bronzino's Medici portraits – review James Hall 2010
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If you can dream up a better backdrop for the first postwar movie of the second most lusted-after pin-up girl of the second world war, then go ahead, impress me, but I think Vidor – and his female writers and producer – had this one pretty well covered.
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