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Tinseltown

[ tin-suhl-toun ]

noun

Informal.
  1. Hollywood, California, as a center of the movie industry.


Tinseltown

/ ˈɪԲəˌٲʊ /

noun

  1. an informal name for Hollywood
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of Tinseltown1

C20: from the insubstantial glitter of the film world
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Gibson, a prominent Tinseltown conservative who was recently nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as an ambassador to Hollywood, lost the ability to legally own firearms following a misdemeanor domestic violence conviction.

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With this year’s Academy Awards just weeks away, we take a look at notable controversies of the past, some of which perhaps deserve their own statuettes for spite and nastiness: putting the tin in Tinseltown.

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Hollywood may be known as Tinseltown, a dream factory at the heart of the global entertainment industry.

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After all, Tinseltown did deny him his dream for decades.

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Moore went full-tilt ferocious in French director Coralie Fargeat’s latest film as aging Tinseltown star Elisabeth Sparkle, who takes a mysterious anti-aging drug that promises her beauty and success.

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