centerfold

[ sen-ter-fohld ]

noun

1. center spread.
2. a gatefold bound into the center of a magazine or book signature.
3. a photograph of a woman or man in a nude or seminude pose appearing on a magazine centerfold.
4. the person in such a photograph.

Word History and Origins

Origin of centerfold¹

An Americanism dating back to 1950–55; center + fold ¹

Example Sentences

“Yes, Donald Trump is now hawking a Bible. It’s just like any other good book, except in the middle of this one, there’s a centerfold.”

From New York Times

The sort of magazine it envisions — essentially Ms., if it added beefcake centerfolds and became a newsstand blockbuster — didn’t exist.

From New York Times

My first drawing, and I must have made it at 12 years old or something, it was a drawing of a centerfold woman from Jet magazine.

From New York Times

He is also pictured in the comic’s centerfold laying on a couch with a Hulk costume superimposed over him.

From New York Times

“Playboy, of course, was doing its centerfold,” Mr. Jaffee told The Star.

From New York Times

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