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Tinseltown en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈtɪn.səlˌtaʊn/
  • (Australia) audio

Etymology

From tinsel + town.

Meanings

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

Forms

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tinsel-town alternative lexicographic
tinsel town alternative lexicographic

Tinseltown en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈtɪn.səlˌtaʊn/
  • (Australia) audio

Etymology

From tinsel + town.

Meanings

  1. (slang) Nickname 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. (broadly, slang) The movie industry, as found in Hollywood, and Greater Los Angeles, CA, US.
  3. (broadly, slang) The film industry of the United States of America.
  4. (broadly, slang) The film industry in general.
  5. (India, slang) The 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. (India, slang) The Tollywood movie industry.
  7. (India, informal, qualifier:by restriction) Nickname for Film Nagar: a neighbourhood of Hyderabad, India.

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