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underground(2) (iou)



underground noun, adjective, & verb. L16.
[from the adverb.]
A. noun.
The region below the earth; the underworld. Also, an underground space or passage. L16.
T. Kyd Come we for this from depth of vnder ground?
Underlying ground or soil; subsoil. Also, ground lying at a lower level or below trees. E19.
M. O. W. Oliphant The mossy underground beneath the firs.
(Also Underground.) An underground railway. M19.
S. Brett The Underground slowly took him back into central London.
fig. A secret group, movement, or activity, esp. one aiming to subvert an established order or a ruling power. Also, a subculture seeking to provide radical alternatives to the socially accepted or established mode. M20.
C. Hope He..joined the political underground.
b. adjective.
Situated, existing, or occurring underground or under the earth; belonging to the underworld; subterranean. E17.
S. Baring-Gould The underground folk seek union with human beings. D. Adams A..hitherto undetected underground river lying far beneath the surface.
b. To be worn or used underground. E19.
F. Hume They arrayed themselves in underground garments.
fig.
a. Hidden, concealed, secret; not open or public. L17.
J. Keble There may be an unseen, underground unity.
b. Of, pertaining to, or designating a secret group, movement, or activity, esp. one aiming to subvert an established order or a ruling power. Also, of or pertaining to a subculture seeking to provide radical alternatives to the socially accepted or established mode; unconventional, experimental. M20.
G. Brenan People suspected of Underground activity had been arrested. Listener His plays and Other writings circulate only in underground editions.
Special collocations: underground economy N. Amer. = black economy s.v. BLACK adjective. underground mutton Austral. slang a rabbit; rabbit meat. underground railroad, underground railway (a) a railway running under the surface of the ground, esp. beneath the streets and buildings of a city; (b) US History the secret system by which slaves were enabled to escape to the Free States and Canada.
C. verb trans. Lay (electricity or telephone cables) below ground level. L19.
undergrounder noun an underground person L19.

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A form of cheating, a method of marking certain cards by leaving them in the sun for a period of time, which causes their backs either to lighten or darken