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tinseltown1
Tinseltown2
alternative Tinsel Town · alternative Tinsel-Town
- 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 - broadlyslangThe movie industry, as found in Hollywood, and Greater Los Angeles, CA, US.
- broadlyslangThe film industry of the United States of America.
- broadlyslangThe film industry in general.
- 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 - IndiaslangThe Tollywood movie industry.
- Indiainformalby restrictionNickname for Film Nagar: a neighbourhood of Hyderabad, India.
plural Tinseltowns · alternative tinseltown · alternative tinsel town · alternative tinsel-town
- A Christmas-themed district of a city, or a Christmas village.
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tinseltown. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tinseltown
“tinseltown.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tinseltown. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tinseltown,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tinseltown.
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