Grub Street

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.

Grub Street

noun

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

2. the world or class of literary hacks, etc

adjective

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

Example Sentences

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.

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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.”

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

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As the website Grub Street recently noted, “In quarantine, it turns out, everything becomes a cooking blog.”

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New York Media also has an array of websites focusing on food, politics, style and culture, including the Cut, Grub Street and Vulture.

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