Fleet Street

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Fleet′ Street′, 

1. a street in central London, England: location of many newspaper offices;
   often used figuratively to mean the entire British newspaper world.

• 1375–1425; late Middle English Flete Strete, after a nearby stream; see fleet³

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Fleet Street noun

1. a street in central London in which many newspaper offices were formerly situated
2. British journalism or journalists collectively