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Tinseltown¹

  • /ˈtɪn.səlˌtaʊn/

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From tinsel + town.

proper noun Tinsel Town · Tinsel-Town

  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
  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.
  6. India, slang The Tollywood movie industry.
  7. India, informal Nickname for Film Nagar: a neighbourhood of Hyderabad, India.

noun Tinseltowns · tinseltown · tinsel town · tinsel-town

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

tinseltown²

noun tinseltowns

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Tinseltown

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"tinseltown." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/tinseltown. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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@misc{tinseltown_2026,
  title = {tinseltown},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tinseltown},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}