pin-up

noun

1. informal.
   1. a picture of a sexually attractive person, esp when partially or totally undressed
   2. ( as modifier )

      a pin-up magazine

2. slang.
   a person who has appeared in such a picture
3. a photograph of a famous personality
4. modifier designed to be hung from a wall

   a pin-up lamp

Example Sentences

Wayne recalled running away in his first week only to be returned, stripped of his clothes and pinned up against a wall by Morris, strangled until he was breathless and bright red.

From BBC

Lambert has technically already appeared in the hit neo-western drama “Yellowstone,” on one of the posters pinned up in the cowboys’ bunkhouse.

From Los Angeles Times

My boyfriend and I turned the walls of our staircase into a shrine to “Cain’s Jawbone,” pinning up slabs of pages.

From Washington Post

“I felt like a human punching bag, receiving continuous blows from the rioters and being pinned up against the wall,” one of those officers said in a statement to the court.

From Washington Post

Fellow volunteer Sara Avila said she had noticed "an awful lot of people" asking for curtains to pin up against doors as draught excluders and "help keep the heat in" this winter.

From BBC

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