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Fleet street

//ˈfliːt ˌstɹiːt// name

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A street in Westminster borough, London, England, that runs from Ludgate Hill to the Strand; formerly the centre of English journalism.

    "And it is to bee ſeene in London, at the red Lyon, in Fleteſtreete."

  2. 2
    English journalism or journalists as a group. collective, metonymically

    ""They will say that you are an infernal liar and a scientific charlatan, exactly as you and others said of me." "In the face of photographs?" "Faked, Summerlee! Clumsily faked!" "In the face of specimens?" "Ah, there we may have them! Malone and his filthy Fleet Street crew may be all yelping our praises yet.""

Noun
  1. 1
    British journalism wordnet

Etymology

From the (now underground) River Fleet, over which much of Fleet Street runs; see fleet (“arm of the sea; stream”) for more.

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