Tinsel Town
Film industry nickname
Tinsel Town is a nickname for Hollywood and the American film industry.
The name evokes the glittery but insubstantial nature of show business—all surface sparkle.
She moved to Tinsel Town to pursue her acting dreams.
Usually capitalized.
- glitterDecorative metallic flecks
- makeupProducts for beautifying faces
- actorsThose playing roles
- glamourFascinating, elegant attractiveness
- directorOne who leads
silver screen · marquee · screenplays · casting couch · set · Sunset Boulevard · flashbulb · scene · movies · clapboard · screen test · cinema · starlet · sequins · studios · Beverly Hills · films · Rodeo Drive
Tinsel TownMain Street
Town's central thoroughfare
heartland · small-town America · flyover country · Middle America · salt of the earth
Tinsel TownNowheresville
Insignificant, remote locale
Podunk · one-horse town · backwater · the sticks · Hicksville
Tinsel TownRust Belt
Post-industrial American heartland
factory town · mill town · mining town · farm country · industrial heartland
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