Grub Street

Grub Street  (grb)

n.

The world of impoverished writers and literary hacks.

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[After Grub Street, London, former name of Milton Street, where such writers lived.]

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Grub Street

n

1. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a former street in London frequented by literary hacks and needy authors

2. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) the world or class of literary hacks, etc.

adj also 'Grub"street

(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) (sometimes not capital) relating to or characteristic of hack literature

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

Grub Street - the world of literary hacks world, domain - people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest; "the Western world" hack writer, literary hack, hack - a mediocre and disdained writer