Sekirov Dictionary

Hollywood

UK /ˈhɒ.li.wʊd/US /ˈhɑ.li.wʊd/

noun 3
adjective 2
verb 1
forms 5
phrases 2

noun3

A neighbourhood of Los Angeles, California, known as the center of the American motion picture industry.
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the American movie business as a whole
- Thinly-veiled homophobia – this time in early-2000s Hollywood – made Brokeback Mountain an immense challenge for Ossana and her fellow producer James Schamus. — 2025
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A waxing practice that removes all of the pubic hair, unlike a Brazilian which leaves a small strip behind.
- If you ask the woman who does your waxing she will tell you that everyone is asking for Brazilians or Hollywoods, including Gwyneth Paltrow […] — 2009

adjective2

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Resembling or relating to the Hollywood movie industry.
- What did they say when they shipped you away to fight somebody's Hollywood war? — 2007
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Of or characteristic of a Hollywood film.
- A Time reporter called Reagan "Hollywood handsome and remarkably youthful in appearance", a candidate who had "rattled political seismographs from coast to coast." — 2002

verb1

To engage in Hollywooding (various senses).

forms

Hollywooded · Hollywooding · Hollywoods · more Hollywood · most Hollywood

Phrases with Hollywood

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