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pin-up

 noun
     
pin-up [countable]
1 a picture of an attractive person, often not wearing many clothes, that is put up on a wall to be looked at and admired:
a pin-up of her favourite boy band
2 someone who appears in pin-up pictures or who is considered attractive by a particular group of people:
He's becoming the thinking woman's pin-up.
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