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(slang) A nickname for Hollywood.; A district of Los Angeles, California, United States quotations
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 (lyrics and music), “Samson in New Orleans”, in Popular Problems
(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. quotations
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
(India, slang) The Tollywood movie industry
(India, informal, by restriction) A nickname for Film Nagar.; A neighbourhood of Hyderabad, Telangana, India examples
plural Tinseltowns
A Christmas-themed district of a city, or a Christmas village. examples