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Grubstreet

Grubstreet is the alternative form of Grub Street.

Meaning of Grub Street

Proper noun

Grub Street

  1. 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.

Questions about Grubstreet

What is Grubstreet the alternative form of?
Grubstreet is the alternative form of Grub Street.

Words near Grubstreet in the dictionary

  1. grubstaked
  2. grubstaker
  3. grubstakers
  4. grubstakes
  5. grubstaking
  6. Grubstreet
  7. grubwork
  8. grubworm
  9. grubworms
  10. Gruby
  11. Gruby-Sabouraud disease

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Grubstreet (page history and authors); Grub Street (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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