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Fleet Street

–noun
a street in central London, England: location of many newspaper offices; often used figuratively to mean the entire British newspaper world.

Origin:
1375–1425; late ME Flete Strete, after a nearby stream; see fleet 3
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Fleet Street  
n.  British journalism.

[After Fleet Street in central London, long the headquarters for many British newspaper publishers.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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