grub street

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   the world of literary hacks

   Broaderworld

Questions about grub street

What does grub street mean?

grub street means "the world of literary hacks".

Is grub street a common word?

grub street is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.