pin up

1. 1.

   attach with or as if with a pin

   “pin up a picture”

   Synonymspin down

   Broaderattach

Questions about pin up

What does pin up mean?

pin up means "attach with or as if with a pin".

What is another word for pin up?

Close synonyms include pin down. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pin up a common word?

pin up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.