Grub Street
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
After Grub Street in London, England (now named Milton Street), a haunt of and home to impoverished writers.
Proper noun[edit]
- The home or state of impoverished writers and literary hacks.
- Upon the occasion 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.
