English Explanatory Dictionary

Grub Street

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The home or state of impoverished writers and literary hacks.

Word forms

Grub Street

Etymology

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

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