English Explanatory Dictionary

Hanoi Hilton

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Hỏa Lò Prison in Vietnam, where prisoners of war were held and tortured.

Word forms

Hanoi Hilton the Hanoi Hilton

Etymology

From Hanoi + Hilton. An alliterative construction, pairing the location Hanoi (metonymically referring to North Vietnam) with a word referring to lodgings. An ironic reference to the Hilton chain of luxury hotels.

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