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Fleet Street definition

Fleet Street

  1. old street in central London, where several newspaper & printing offices are located
  2. the London press

Etymology: after the Fleet (see fleet), which crosses beneath it

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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