Hollywood adj.
(US) used generically to imply luxury, self-indulgence, etc; occas. disparagingly so.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Anecdota Americana I 11: One of the invited company, further to test the powers of this gifted nose, then held under it his middle finger, which had just come from an exploration of a maid’s private parts. ‘Hollywood,’ the wizard guessed. | |
| ‘Another Little Drink’ in All-America Sports Mag. Feb. 🌐 Most of the kids are Hollywood virgins, who smoke cigarettes, drink gin, and stay out all night. | |
| (con. 1950) Band of Brothers 3: Looks like a recruitin’ poster [...] A Hollywood marine if ever I saw one. | |
 | ‘I Can’t Get That Monster Out of My Mind’ in Slouching Towards Bethlehem 150: As an adjective, the very word ‘Hollywood’ has long been pejorative . | |
| Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 127: You know, daddy, you know you can find a grinder any time that can grind a while, / but tonight I want it did on the Hollywood style. / [...] I want you to fall down on your bended knees / and eat this pussy like a rat eat cheese. | |
| Queens’ Vernacular 108: Hollywood a small town in Southern California heralded as the Olympus of cosmologists; the fount of celluloid mythology. The town itself becomes Tinsel Town in the vernacular, while Hollywood is used to form compounds which convey the sin city element of the movie capital. | |
| Sweetwater Gunslinger 201 (1990) 95: ‘Rumor has it you’ve been taking Hollywood Showers.’ Shaking her finger, Jan said, ‘Naughty, naughty.’. | |
| Homeboy 122: No Hollywood showers in the jailhouse! | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Apples (2023) 1: Rachel had Hollywood bair and her skin was gold. |
In compounds
(US black) an attractive woman.
| ‘Manhattan Fable’ 🎵 Everything was fine as wine until he cut into Hollywood eyes. | |
| ‘Bop Dict.’ in Mad mag. Mar. 20: Hollywood eyes – Cute girls. [Ibid.] 22: Man! Will you pin them gone Hollywood eyes in the window! | |
| Say 28 Apr. 53: Hollywood eyes: a fine girl. |
(US) a male homosexual prostitute .
| Queens’ Vernacular 111: a male prostitute [...] Hollywood hustler (kwn LA & LV, mid ’60s). |
(US prison) creamed cod fish .
| Prison Sl. 67: Hollywood Stew Old term for creamed codfish. |
(US black/west coast) an automobile manoeuvre whereby one cuts in front of another vehicle, stopping one’s own car and thus forcing the other vehicle to halt.
| Runnin’ Down Some Lines 114: To cut across several lanes of traffic, either in front of or in back of another car (the Hollywood swoop). |