tinseltown

tin·sel·town
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/ˈtɪn.səlˌtaʊn/

proper noun

Nickname for Hollywood: a district of Los Angeles, California, United States.

UncommonScrabble 13

Meanings

tinseltown1

nountinseltown (plural tinseltowns)

plural tinseltowns

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Tinseltown

Tinseltown2

proper noun

alternative Tinsel Town · alternative Tinsel-Town

  1. slangNickname for Hollywood: a district of Los Angeles, California, United States.

    There's a woman in the window / There's a bed in Tinseltown / I'll write you when it's over / Let me take this temple down

    2014, Leonard Cohen, “Samson in New Orleans”, in Popular Problems
  2. broadlyslangThe movie industry, as found in Hollywood, and Greater Los Angeles, CA, US.
  3. broadlyslangThe film industry of the United States of America.
  4. broadlyslangThe film industry in general.
  5. IndiaslangThe Bollywood movie industry.

    Bollywood is also very commonly known as both tinsel town and B-town, neither of which is listed in the dictionaries.

    2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 302
  6. IndiaslangThe Tollywood movie industry.
  7. Indiainformalby restrictionNickname for Film Nagar: a neighbourhood of Hyderabad, India.
nounTinseltown (plural Tinseltowns)

plural Tinseltowns · alternative tinseltown · alternative tinsel town · alternative tinsel-town

  1. A Christmas-themed district of a city, or a Christmas village.

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Cite this entry
APA

tinseltown. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tinseltown

MLA

“tinseltown.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tinseltown. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tinseltown,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tinseltown.

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