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1811 slang, 01.12.05.

January 12th, 2005 by Dave

GRUB STREET. A street near Moorfields, formerly the supposed
habitation of many persons who wrote for the booksellers:
hence a Grub-street writer means a hackney author,
who manufactures books for the booksellers.

Read more:
1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
by Captain Grose

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