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• Grub Street — Until the early 1800s, Grub Street was the name of a street in London s impoverished Moorfields district. In the 1700s and 1800s, the street was famous for its concentration of mediocre, impoverished hack writers , aspiring poets, and low end… …   Wikipedia

• grub-street — Grub Street, 1. a former street in London, where struggling writers lived (now caed Milton Street). 2. writers who write merely to earn money; hack writers: »He [Balzac] served a long apprenticeship in the labyrinth of Grub Street (Listener).… …   Useful english dictionary

• Grub Street (literary magazine) — Grub Street is Towson University s arts and literary magazine. Every year, they feature the writings and artwork of Towson students and others in the community; it s free and available at many locations on campus.The magazine is named after Grub… …   Wikipedia

• Grub Street — n. (often attrib.) the world or class of literary hacks and impoverished authors. Etymology: name of a street (later Milton St.) in Moorgate, London, inhabited by these in the 17th c. * * * noun the world of literary hacks • Hypernyms: ↑world,… …   Useful english dictionary

• Grub Street Journal — Published from 1730 to 1737, The Grub Street Journal was a satire on popular journalism and hack writing as it was conducted in Grub Street in London. It was largely edited by Richard Russel and the botanist John Martyn. Alexander Pope was one of …   Wikipedia

• New Grub Street —   Author(s) George Gissing …   Wikipedia

• hack —    Applied to a writer of poor quality stories and other works. The word compares such a writer with a hackney horse, one whose services are for hire to anyone. It often collocates with Grub Street, a street in London which was later re named… …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

• Hack writer — is a colloquial, usually pejorative, term used to refer to a writer who is paid to write low quality, quickly put together articles or books to order , often with a short deadline. In a fiction writing context, the term is used to describe… …   Wikipedia

• hack — hack1 /hak/, v.t. 1. to cut, notch, slice, chop, or sever (something) with or as with heavy, irregular blows (often fol. by up or down): to hack meat; to hack down trees. 2. to break up the surface of (the ground). 3. to clear (a road, path,… …   Universalium

• hack writer — noun a mediocre and disdained writer • Syn: ↑hack, ↑literary hack • Hypernyms: ↑writer, ↑author • Member Holonyms: ↑Grub Street …   Useful english dictionary

• hack — I v 1. cut, cut down, hew, saw down, fell, chop, chop down, splinter; lop off, truncate, butcher, amputate, detach, remove; trim, clip, dock, snip, nip, snap; shear, crop, (of the hair) bob. 2. gash, slash, Archaic. carbonado, tear into, lance,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder