| 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. |
[gruhb-street] 
| 1. | produced by a hack; poor in quality: a grubstreet book. |
| 2. | Grub Street (def. 2). |
| Grub Street (grŭb) n. The world of impoverished writers and literary hacks. [After Grub Street, London, former name of Milton Street, where such writers lived.] |
