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underground railroads

underground railroads is the plural of underground railroad.

Meaning of underground railroad

Noun

underground railroad (plural underground railroads)

  1. A clandestine network used to exfiltrate dissidents out of their country.
    • The trio quickly went underground, hiding in a friend’s house in their home city of Vladivostok, in Russia’s Far East, while seeking a way to escape the country and potentially lengthy prison sentences. That brought them to a group called In Transit, part of an extensive underground railroad that...2023 February 14, Neil MacFarquhar, Alina Lobzina, “Secretive Network Rescues Russia’s Antiwar Dissidents in Nick of Time”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 24 Feb 2023

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Questions about underground railroads

What is underground railroads the plural of?
Underground railroads is the plural of underground railroad.

Words near underground railroads in the dictionary

  1. underground handpass
  2. underground handpasses
  3. underground mutton
  4. underground people
  5. underground railroad
  6. underground railroads
  7. underground railway
  8. underground railways
  9. undergrounded
  10. undergrounder
  11. undergrounders

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