Definition of "pin-up" [pin-up]

• 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)
• Figurehead, person who represents an idea, cause etc. (noun)

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• "But if the term 'pin-up' refers to a flat photograph, then Hendricks is in 3-D."
• "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."
• "One was a Hollywood pin-up who had survived a poor, unhappy childhood to become a worldwide sex symbol married to playwright Arthur Miller."