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Complete Definition of "Grub Street"

English

Etymology
After Grub Street in London, England now named Milton Street, a haunt of and home to impoverished writers.

Proper noun
en-proper noun

  1. the home or state of impoverished writers and literary hacks

#: Upon the occaision of his first publication he quit his day job, only to find that Grub Street wasn't lined with manors and villas but hovels and slums.

vi:Grub Street

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