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Grub' Street"




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



Pronunciation: (grub'strēt"), [key]
—adj.
produced by a hack; poor in quality: a grubstreet book.

—n.
See Grub Street (def. 2).

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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