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Grub Street
noun
- a street in London, England: formerly inhabited by many impoverished minor writers and literary hacks; now called Milton Street.
- petty and needy authors, or literary hacks, collectively.
Grub Street
noun
- a former street in London frequented by literary hacks and needy authors
- the world or class of literary hacks, etc
adjective
- sometimes not capital relating to or characteristic of hack literature
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Real-estate expert Julian Hitchcock told Grub Street he expects to see more chain restaurants pop up in New York.
Nor was it only in Grub Street tracts that such reflections were to be found.
That sort of labour was probably as poorly paid in Berlin at the time as in the Grub Street of last century.
"Grub Street style," therefore, means poor or worthless in literary value.
They were wretched stuff, in the Grub Street ballad style; and when they were printed he sent me about the town to sell them.
Ministers of state, marshals, and princes of the blood, were as busy as any Grub-street garretteer.
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