Dictionaries:
Hollywood:
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.
See Also: bad lamps, fuck-happy, glamour girl, go Hollywood, Hollywood, Hollywooing, hoods, in like Flynn, jades, panties, peepers, spy-smashers, tea timers, tinted bo-peeps
Quotes Containing Hollywood:
Oliver Webb (Walter Connelly) and Owen O''Malley (Roscoe Karns) speaking of director Oscar Jaffe''s (John Barrymore) obsession with stage star Lily Garland/Mildred Plotka (Carole Lombard) in Twentieth Century (1934): - Oliver:''Do you know how much he paid for long distance calls to Hollywood last year? Eighteen hundred bucks! And she hung-up-on him every time.'' - Owen:''In some Humpty Dumpty way that was true-love .''
Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant) to his brother Jonathan (Raymond Massey) whose face was redone in the image of Frankenstein by his plastic surgeon friend and sidekick Dr. Einstein (Peter Lorre) in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944): ''Where did you get that face? Hollywood?''
Groucho Marx: 'Women should be obscene and not heard.' The full quote, from his 1941 interview with Marjorie White (From the video Gabe Kaplan as Groucho (1982)): 'As far as I'm concerned women should be obscene and not heard.' A similar opinion is expressed by Phil Silvers as movie mogul W.B. Warkoff in The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood (1980): 'I think women should be felt and not heard.'
Groucho Marx: ''Women should be obscene and not heard.'' The full quote, from his 1941 interview with Marjorie White (From the video Gabe Kaplan as Groucho (1982)): ''As far as I''m concerned women should be obscene and not heard.'' A similar opinion is expressed by Phil Silvers as movie mogul W.B. Warkoff in The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood (1980): ''I think women should be felt and not heard.''
Groucho Marx: 'Women should be obscene and not heard.' The full quote, from his 1941 interview with Marjorie White (From the video Gabe Kaplan as Groucho (1982)): 'As far as I'm concerned women should be obscene and not heard.' A similar opinion is expressed by Phil Silvers as movie mogul W.B. Warkoff in The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood (1980): 'I think women should be felt and not heard.'
Lou (Julie Warner) to Dr. Ben Stone (Michael J. Fox) in Doc Hollywood (1991): ''I can see you coming half a mile away, Doctor, you and your slick city ways. I suspect your idea of romance is whatever separates me from my panties .''
Lou (Julie Warner) to Dr. Ben Stone (Michael J. Fox) in Doc Hollywood (1991):''I can see you coming half a mile away, Doctor, you and your slick city ways. I suspect your idea of romance is whatever separates me from my panties .''
Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant) to his brother Jonathan (Raymond Massey) whose face was redone in the image of Frankenstein by his plastic surgeon friend and sidekick Dr. Einstein (Peter Lorre) in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944): ''Where did you get that face? Hollywood?''
Link to this page: