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Grub Street
Grub Street
noun
1.
a street in London, England: formerly inhabited by many impoverished minor writers and literary hacks; now called Milton Street.
2.
petty and needy authors, or literary hacks, collectively.
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grub·street
/
ˈgrʌbˌstrit
/
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[
gruhb
-street
]
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adjective
1.
produced by a hack; poor in quality:
a grubstreet book.
noun
2.
Grub Street
(
def. 2
)
.
Origin:
1640–50
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Grub Street
—
n
1.
a former street in London frequented by literary hacks and needy authors
2.
the world or class of literary hacks, etc
—
adj
3.
(
sometimes not capital
) relating to or characteristic of hack literature
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"O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee,
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