pin-up

See also: pinup and pin up

English

Alternative forms

• pinup

Etymology

Deverbal from pin up, because such a photograph is often extracted from the publication and pinned up on a wall.

Noun

pin-up

pin-up (plural pin-ups)

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.

   Hyponym: centerfold

   pin-ups on every wall of their dorm room

2. (often attributive) The person so depicted.

   Hyponym: centerfold

   pin-up girl

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

3. (figuratively) Figurehead, person who represents an idea, cause etc.

   Coordinate term: poster child

   • 2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Guardian‎^[1]:

     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.

Translations

photograph

• Finnish: pin-up-kuva
• French: pin-up (fr) f
• German: Pin-up (de) n
• Japanese: ピンアップ (pin'appu), ピンナップ (Pinnappu), グラビア (gurabia)
• Russian: пин-а́п (ru) m (pin-áp), пина́п m (pináp), фотогра́фия красо́тки f (fotográfija krasótki)
• Swedish: pinuppbild c

person

• Bulgarian: хубаво момиче n (hubavo momiče)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海報女郎／海报女郎 (hǎibào nǚláng), 賽車女郎／赛车女郎 (zh) (sàichē nǚláng)

• Finnish: pin-up-tyttö
• French: pin-up (fr) f (woman)
• German: Pin-up-Girl n
• Japanese: ピンアップガール (pin'appu gāru)
• Russian: краса́вчик (ru) m (krasávčik) (man), красо́тка (ru) f (krasótka) (woman), пин-а́п гёрл f (pin-áp gjorl) (pin-up girl)
• Swedish: pinuppa (sv) c

See also

• (poster hung): tack-up

Anagrams

• in pup

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.nœp/

• Audio (Paris):

  (file)

Noun

pin-up f (plural pin-up)

1. pin-up (woman in a photograph)
2. babe (sexually attractive woman)

Further reading

• “pin-up”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.