Tinseltown
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Tinseltown
- (slang) A nickname for Hollywood.; A district of Los Angeles, California, United States
- 2014, Leonard Cohen (lyrics and music), “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) A nickname for Film Nagar.; A neighbourhood of Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Tinseltown (plural Tinseltowns)
- A Christmas-themed district of a city, or a Christmas village.