Definition of "centerfold" [centerfold]

• A magazine center spread, especially a foldout of an oversize photograph or feature. (noun)
• The subject of a photograph used as a centerfold, often a nude model. (noun)
• A feature, such as an advertisement or calender, inserted as a centerfold. (noun)

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• "AP: Scott Brown, sexy centerfold, is beating lib Coakley"
• "The centerfold is a demurely posed (for our standards of 2008), extremely fit young black woman."
• "The whole point of a centerfold is her unattainability, but with hard-core porn, it’s precisely the reverse: the star isn’t just attainable, she’s already being attained, and the user gets to be in on the action."