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grubstreet

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grub⋅street

  [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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Word Origin & History

grubstreet 
1630, "originally the name of a street in Moorfields in London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems; whence any mean production is called grubstreet" [Johnson]. Name changed 1830 to Milton Street (after a local developer) then erased entirely 1970s by the Barbicon complex.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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