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Hollywood
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Movie capital of the USA located in Southern California; also know as Tinsel Town.Also used to form compounds:
1. Hollywood bed , a mattress on a box spring supported by low legs.
2. Hollywood blue , cobalt glass.
3. Hollywood canvas , the silver screen.
4. Hollywood cocktail , potent combination of benzedrine and gin.
5. Hollywood glasses , sunglasses, especially wrap-around sunglasses. SYNONYMS: hoods; jades; spy-smashers; tea timers; tinted bo-peeps.
6. Hollywood gold , easy pickings.
7. Hollywood Hilton , YMCA patronized by homosexuals.
8. Hollywood rejects , men and women who failed to break in the movies.
9. Hollywood kiss-off , a dismissal. Hollywood kiss , the idiomatic form, is to dismiss or get rid of. Oddly enough both expressions are more often heard on the East Coast, especially in New York.
10. Hollywood uterus , in gaylese, for the anus. Coined in the 1960s. See anus for synonyms.
(Noun) city in California where movie stars live and which revolves around the TV and film industries.
Usage: I saw Lindsay Lohan in Hollywood.
(Noun) Glitzy, insubstantial.
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