Grub Street
WordNet
noun
(1) The world of literary hacks
WiktionaryText
Etymology
After Grub Street in London, England now named Milton Street, a haunt of and home to impoverished writers.
Proper noun
- the home or state of impoverished writers and literary hacks
- Upon the occaision 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.