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undergrounders

undergrounders is the plural of undergrounder.

Meaning of undergrounder

Noun

undergrounder (plural undergrounders)

  1. An underground publication or movie.
    • The excess that is so noticeable in Stevens's brawl is absent in the least serious undergrounder, […]1957, Manny Farber, "Underground Films", in Robert Walsh (ed.) Negative Space: Manny Farber on the movies (1998), p. 27
  2. A person who dwells underground.
    • […] sewer people, derelicts, bag ladies, undergrounders, and Bowery bums. Whatever the cause of their illness, as in Scanners, homeless people are victims but, more importantly, a threat to be eliminated.2017, Stephen Pimpare, Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens, page 227
  3. One who is part of a secret or underground society or subculture.
    • His tactics appealed to the type of Old Bolshevik undergrounder who had little patience with theoretical hairsplitting and who looked to a firm authority to take the lead in practical work.1985, Robert Vincent Daniels, chapter 7, in Russia: The Roots of Confrontation, →ISBN, page 167

Questions about undergrounders

What is undergrounders the plural of?
Undergrounders is the plural of undergrounder.

Words near undergrounders in the dictionary

  1. underground railroads
  2. underground railway
  3. underground railways
  4. undergrounded
  5. undergrounder
  6. undergrounders
  7. undergrounding
  8. undergroundness
  9. undergrounds
  10. undergrove
  11. undergroves

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