pin-up

• pinup

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

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:

     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.

• (poster hung): tack-up

• in pup

Borrowed from English.

• IPA^(key): /pi.nœp/

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pin-up f (plural pin-up)

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

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