Definition of Pin up

1. Verb. Attach with or as if with a pin. "Pin up a picture"

Exact synonyms: Pin Down
Generic synonyms: Attach

Definition of Pin up

1. Verb. (transitive) To put (e.g. a sheet of paper) on display, using a pin. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pin Up

pin amalgam
pin and ligature cutter
pin back
pin bone
pin cherry
pin clover
pin curl
pin down
pin implant
pin money
pin oak
pin table
pin the tail on the donkey
pin up (current term)
pin wrench
pina
pina cloth
pina colada
pinaceous
pinaces
pinacocyte
pinacoderm
pinacoderms
pinacoid
pinacoids
pinacol
pinacol rearrangement
pinacolborane

Literary usage of Pin up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Representative English Plays: From the Middle Ages to the End of the by John Strong Perry Tatlock, Robert Grant Martin (1916)
"They serve one to pin up one's hair. Wit. Is that the way? Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies. Mrs. Mil. ..."

2. Representative English Dramas from Dryden to Sheridan by Frederick Tupper, James Waddell Tupper (1914)
"They serve one to pin up one's hair. Wit. Is that the way? Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies. Mrs. Mil. ..."

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