单词 | pin-up girl |
释义 | > as lemmaspin-up girl a. Of a photograph of a person: intended for display on a wall, etc. Of a person: being, or worthy of being, the subject of such a picture; glamorous, attractive. Frequently in pin-up girl. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > a photograph > [adjective] > photograph by style or subject vignetted1867 nude1869 candid1929 pin-up1941 upskirt1994 1941 Life 7 July 34 Dorothy Lamour is No. 1 pin-up girl of the U.S. Army. 1944 Richmond (Va.) 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. 1946 News Chron. 27 Feb. 1/8 The honourable lady must not take advantage of the fact that she is my pin-up girl. 1958 E. H. Clements Uncommon Cold i. 69 That pin-up girl I talked to on the pier. 1963 Times 22 Jan. 3/4 He is the ‘pin-up’ cricketer of the layman as much as of the connoisseur. 2003 Observer 23 Nov. i. 27/4 The smiling pin-up girl for a business run by her gifted ‘entreprenerd’ partner. < as lemmas |
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