Meaning of Tinseltown | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Nickname for Hollywood: a district of Los Angeles, California, United States.
   slang
2. A Christmas-themed district of a city, or a Christmas village.
3. The movie industry, as found in Hollywood, and Greater Los Angeles, CA, US.
   broadly, slang
4. The film industry of the United States of America.
   broadly, slang
5. The film industry in general.
   broadly, slang
6. The Bollywood movie industry.
   India, slang
7. The Tollywood movie industry.
   India, slang
8. Nickname for Film Nagar: a neighbourhood of Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
   India, informal

Equivalents

Examples

“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”

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

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