Grub Street

English Etymology After Grub Street in London, England (now named Milton Street), a haunt of and home to impoverished writers. Proper noun Grub Street The home or state of impoverished writers and literary hacks. en 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. en 1972 Pat Rogers Grub Street: Studies in a Subculture 384 Not that the existence of Grub street is to be doubted: it was, indeed, a grim actuality, and many a garreter realised by experienceHow unhappy's the fateTo live by one's pateAnd to be forced to write hackney for bread.