subs. phr. (colloquial).—The so-called English, written to sell by the FLEET-STREETER (q.v.), or baser sort of journalist: a mixture of sesquipedalians and slang, of phrases worn threadbare and phrases sprung from the kennel; of bad grammar and worse manners; the like of which is impossible outside FLEET-STREET (q.v.), but which in FLEET-STREET commands a price, and enables not a few to live.
