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Definition of Grub Street
1. Noun. The world of literary hacks.
Definition of Grub Street
1. Proper noun. the home or state of impoverished writers and literary hacks ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grub Street
Literary usage of Grub Street
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Curiosities of London: Exhibiting the Most Rare and Remarkable Objects of by John Timbs (1868)
"Grub-street performances " had long been applied to "bad matter expressed in ...
However, Grub-street was not always tenanted exclusively by low pretenders ..."
2. London, Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions by Henry Benjamin Wheatley, Peter Cunningham (1891)
"Grub Street, very long, coming out of Fore Street, and running, northwards, into
Chiswell Street; but some small part of it, to wit from Sun Alley to ..."
3. Familiar Allusions: A Hand-book of Miscellaneous Information Including the by William Adolphus Wheeler, Charles Gardner Wheeler (1894)
"Memoirs of the Society of Grub Street appeared in 1737. ... The name Grub Street,
as a term of reproach or contempt,is sf.id to have been first used with ..."
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