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ˈpin-up, a. and n.
[f. vbl. phr. to pin up: see pin v.1]
A. adj.
1. Adapted for being pinned up.
1677Lond. Gaz. No. 1245/4 One black Sarsenet Pin-up-Petticoat.
2. Of a photograph or other picture, designed to be fixed to a wall, etc. Also applied to a favourite or sexually attractive young person, the typical subject of such a photograph; also in extended use. Also, pertaining to or characteristic of such a picture or person.
1941Life 7 July 34 Dorothy Lamour is No. 1 pin-up girl of the U.S. Army. 1943Sun (Baltimore) 8 Oct. 22/6 Bob Hope, radio and film comedian, today emerged victorious as the official pin-up boy of the WAC contingents here. 1944Richmond (Virginia) Times-Dispatch 19 May 11/5 The ex-GI's who threw away all their pin-up pictures when they came home from the war are tacking pretty photos up on their bedroom walls again. 1946News Chron. 27 Feb. 1/8 The honourable lady must not take advantage of the fact that she is my pin-up girl. 1948‘E. Crispin’ Buried for Pleasure iii. 19 She had a figure like the quintessence of all pin-up girls. 1948M. A. Michael tr. Mielche's From Santos to Bahia vi. 142 The hard, cold eyes of the American girls,..calculation behind their vulgar ‘pin-up’ smile. 1953Encounter Nov. 30/1 Women's locks, or corsets, or riding boots, and even pin-up portraits, may become the object of fetishist worship. 1958E. H. Clements Uncommon Cold i. 69 That pin-up girl I talked to on the pier. 1960News Chron. 13 July 3/1 Gillies Pelletier,..Gillies is the pin-up boy of practically every French-Canadian female who watches television. 1963Times 22 Jan. 3/4 He is the ‘pin-up’ cricketer of the layman as much as of the connoisseur and he will be remembered always as a player who never grew old. 1969New Statesman 18 July 71/1 Aubrey Jones, when I first knew him, was the pin-up boy of the modern Tory party. 1976T. Stoppard Dirty Linen 11 The man reacting to the pin-up photograph..Maddie in a pin-up pose.
B. n. A pin-up photograph; the subject of such a photograph; also transf.
1943Yank 30 Apr. 17/1 The yeoman who did all the worrying about this week's Coast Guard issue roared quite emphatically that this week's pin up would have to have his approval. 1945Times 4 Jan. 5/4 There is always room for a ‘pin-up’ or a photograph. 1951J. B. Priestley Festival at Farbridge ii. ii. 281 I'll bring the two winsome pin-ups with me and we'll all have lunch. 1957R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy vii. 175 Pin-ups used to be, and still are, standard decoration for servicemen's billets and the cabs of lorries. Ibid. 178 Sometimes a male pin-up for the ladies is produced. 1970Daily Tel. 13 Jan. 14/6 He has since become the leading figure—the political pin-up—of the new régime. 1971B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 61 Next morning before parade, I stuck the crumpled picture of the monkey god on the wall beside the bed, next to the pin-ups of Ida Lupino and Jinx Falkenberg. 1972J. McClure Caterpillar Cop ii. 15 The hundreds of murders committed for profit by writers..kept things going, just like those pin-ups in Antarctic weather stations. 1979‘M. Yorke’ Death on Account xiii. 129 No pin-ups of nudes. It's like a monk's cell. |