GRUB STREET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Grub Street mean? 

• GRUB STREET (noun)
  The noun GRUB STREET has 1 sense:

1. the world of literary hacks

  Familiarity information: GRUB STREET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRUB STREET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The world of literary hacks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Grub Street" is a kind of...):

domain; world (people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest)

Meronyms (members of "Grub Street"):

hack; hack writer; literary hack (a mediocre and disdained writer)

 Context examples 

It was no larger than a hall bedroom in Grub Street, and yet twelve men were herded into it to eat and sleep and carry on all the functions of living.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But the upshot of it all—of my thinking and reading and loving—is that I am going to move to Grub Street.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Sometimes I am fairly sure I am out of water, and that I should belong in Paris, in Grub Street, in a hermit's cave, or in some sadly wild Bohemian crowd, drinking claret,—dago-red they call it in San Francisco,—dining in cheap restaurants in the Latin Quarter, and expressing vociferously radical views upon all creation.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)