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Tinseltown
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Proper noun
Tinseltown
- (slang) Nickname for Hollywood: a district of Los Angeles, California, United States.
- 2014, Leonard Cohen, “Samson in New Orleans”, in Popular Problems:
- 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
- (slang, by extension) The movie industry, as found in Hollywood, and Greater Los Angeles, CA, US.
- (slang, by extension) The film industry of the United States of America.
- (slang, by extension) The film industry in general.
- (India, slang) The Bollywood movie industry.
- (India, slang) The Tollywood movie industry.
- (India, informal, by restriction) Nickname for Film Nagar: a neighbourhood of Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
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Noun
Tinseltown (plural Tinseltowns)
- A Christmas-themed district of a city, or a Christmas village.
Alternative forms
- tinseltown, tinsel town, tinsel-town
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