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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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. sometimes not capital relating to or characteristic of hack literature
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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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.

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.”

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

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

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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