Grub Street

American  

noun

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.

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Grub Street British  

noun

1. a former street in London frequented by literary hacks and needy authors

2. the world or class of literary hacks, etc

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adjective

1. (sometimes not capital) relating to or characteristic of hack literature

Example Sentences

Much of the concern surrounding AI slop is overwrought, as low-quality mass-produced content has consistently accompanied technological innovation throughout history, from the printing press to Grub Street publications in the 1700s.

From Los Angeles Times

By the late-19th century, “Grub Street” had become a generic term for ambitious, worldly—and mostly talentless—writers, everything the classicist Gissing abhorred.

From The Wall Street Journal

As the food blog Grub Street pointed out in 2019, some fanatics say it’s all about the tomatoes, while others maintain bacon is the VIP.

From Seattle Times

Chris Crowley, a writer for New York Magazine’s Grub Street, wrote that it “always felt like a perfect location for a shopping scene gone wrong in a zombie apocalypse movie.”

From New York Times

“I have voted Republican most of my life,” Brown wrote in another now-deleted tweet, according to Grub Street.

From Fox News