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单词 pin-up
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Definition of pin-up in English:

pin-up

noun ˈpɪnʌp
  • 1A poster showing a famous or attractive person.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Jacksonville Shipyard established that nude pin-ups in a locker - apart from any other consideration - constituted sexual harassment, even if the complainant was not targeted.
    • Cover images were pin-ups for the people, available on newsstands everywhere.
    • You could stick it next to your pin-up of Hendrik Verwoerd, another old white man who thought his Bible held some useful tips on how to manage human affairs.
    • And a testosterone-driven culture was further fed by the pin-up, culminating in the Page 3 Girl.
    • Amongst a second set of Glastonbury posters is a pin-up of Michael and Emily Eavis.
    • They are purely concerned with selling their creativity and observing how the world respond to it whereas boybands are more concerned with capitalising on memorabilia sold and being the pin-ups in every girl's room.
    • Football's original pin-up was described by university registrar James O'Kane as ‘noteworthy, sometimes notorious, but never ignored’.
    • By reuniting the oft-reproduced images of Che Guevara and the Baader-Meinhof pin-ups with their tenets of belief, LaBruce puts the radical back into radical chic.
    • One of the ‘girls’ in the office has a pin-up of Robert Montgomery on the wall.
    • And be still my beating heart, a stunning collection of old pin-ups, magazines and paperbacks for sale on e-bay.
    • I also want to thank the editors of The Nation for their playfulness and/or insensitivity in allowing my perky pin-up to get into print.
    • The owner of each disc will receive a special prize and a signed pin-up!
    • I pondered what it would feel like, going to one of my mates houses and having him show me the latest pin-up in his garage, only to find that it would be her.
    • Before you know it, Petey is a panderer of pulchritude, a producer of pin-ups featuring barely dressed babes.
    • Who was your bedroom wall poster pin-up: David Cassidy?
    • Scorsese reinforces the point by juxtaposing images of his own mother preparing food for prim and well-behaved children with the nudie pin-ups that adorn the walls at the hang-out of J.R. and his pals.
    • Is it just us, or does all this retro culture stuff seem infused with an element of cheesecake, a world where the pin-up was the height of visual elegance?
    • The walls are filled with pin-up posters of Abba, the Bee Gees, and Shaun Cassidy.
    • Adam was checking out a calendar with pin-ups of models when he saw me clutching all the posters of him, ‘Whoa, I never knew you were so into me.’
    • Women soldiers will also have to take down their favorite pin-ups, as one clause, expressly formulated to include both men and women, prohibits them from hanging up pornographic images that might offend others.
    1. 1.1 A person featured in a pin-up.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Two of those legendary calendars, featuring the world's most glamorous pin-ups, currently have pride of place at Eastleigh Museum.
      • The blond pin-up said he had three amazing years with Busted but was devoted to Fightstar.
      • Johansson is peeling off her clothes in a photographic studio in LA, in preparation for becoming the pin-up for Bono's new plan.
      • The Daily Mirror strip finished in 1959 and things went quiet for Jane until the 1970s when Lesley Duff portrayed the pin-up in the musical stage-play Happy As A Sandbag.
      • A second print run may have to be considered as some of the club's strikers and defenders are becoming pin-ups.
      • A Kerry man, who became a calendar pin-up at the age of 90, has passed away.
      • We all can't be pin-ups like Tom Cruise or Nicole Kidman, or rock stars like Bono or Sinead O'Connor, or gifted writers like Edna O'Brien or Norman Mailer.
      • McCoist is an icon, a pin-up, a hero, a joker, an enthusiast, but he will still be all of that tomorrow.
      • To the untrained eye, everyone appears more or less the same, the men going for a more authentic take on Mark Lamarr's look, the women modelling themselves on Fifties pin-ups.
      • A tattoo artist at Tattoomania for two years now, she emblazons said objects with imagery heavily inspired by her trade and by old pin-ups.
      • But the all-star event - originally due to feature top acts like X Factor pin-ups G4 and Welsh songbird Katherine Jenkins on June 15-could still wow music fans later this summer.
      • Porter, the former pin-up from Portobello - most famous for having her naked body projected on to the Houses of Parliament - is in high spirits.
      • In related news, British Navy has rescinded their recent ban on the skin on the ships; British sailors will be again able to hang ‘in the privacy of their own quarters’ their favorite pin-ups.
      • Another idea, to raise funds for three military charities, was a calendar fronted by Page 3 model and Forces pin-up Nell McAndrew and including Mrs Webster's son Nicky Coward.
      • In media that portray women largely as victims or pin-ups, we desperately need stories of ordinary Bangladeshi women who have beaten the odds.
      • There is a bold emphasis on image building and promoting the idea of the pin-up.
      • By the turn of the century the pin-up was no longer a girl-next-doorish glamour model but that useful catch-all, a ‘celebrity’.
      • Making a sharp exit, Urquhart found solace in modelling and an unlikely role as pin-up for girls' teen mag My Guy.
      • They're all the same height, they all dress the same, young girls fawn over them like pin-ups, but Turn are not a boy band.
      • Some pin-ups will be present to sign calendars.
      Synonyms
      beauty, beautiful woman, dream, vision, picture, goddess, venus, siren, charmer, enchantress, seductress
 
 
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