Grub Street Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the world of literary hacks

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Definitions
  1. a street in London (now called Milton Street), described by Dr. Johnson as "much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems, whence any mean production is called grubstreet." As an adjective, suitable to, or resembling the production of, Grub Street.

Webster 1913