Definition of centerfold
1 : a foldout that is the center spread of a magazine
2 : a picture (as of a nude) on a centerfold; also : a model featured in such a picture
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There was a centerfold in Sports Illustrated for Kids, features in the Smithsonian People’s Magazine and the (now-defunct) National Sports Daily.
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Founded in 1974, High Times is a counterculture survivor, with growing tips, music reviews and centerfolds of glittering green buds to decorate the walls of college dorms.
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Started in 1974 by Tom Forcade, an underground journalist, drug smuggler and Yippie, the magazine was originally conceived as a parody of Playboy, but with lurid centerfolds of cannabis buds the size of bonsai trees instead of nude women.
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At least one involves the late computer scientist David Huffman, who discovered bottom-up compression; another features Lena Söderberg, whose 1972 Playboy centerfold became the standard test image for compression algorithms.
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First Known Use of centerfold
1941
CENTERFOLD Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of centerfold for English Language Learners
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: the pages that face each other in the middle of a magazine or newspaper
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: a picture of a person (such as a woman who is not wearing clothes) that is in the centerfold of a magazine
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: a person whose picture is the centerfold of a magazine
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