Definition of Underground

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Underground

The place or space beneath the surface of the ground; subterranean space.

Being below the surface of the ground; as, an underground story or apartment.

Done or occurring out of sight; secret.

Beneath the surface of the earth.

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Underground Quotations

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
Harriet Tubman

There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.
Richard Pryor

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Thomas Carlyle

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.
Emile Zola

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
Miguel de Cervantes

The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have not been recognized.
Russell Simmons

Of course, I started really being a comics fan with the underground stuff in the '70s.
Glenn Danzig

Anyway, it's good to be sent back to the underground. There's always a good side to bad things and the good side to this is that at least everyone has to go back down.
Joe Strummer

For every prohibition you create you also create an underground.
Jello Biafra

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.
Courtney Love

Underground Translations

underground in Dutch is metro
Underground in German is Untergrund
underground in Italian is sotterraneo, sottosuolo
underground in Norwegian is undergrunn, undergrunnsbane
underground in Spanish is subsuelo, subterrano
underground in Swedish is underjordisk, tunnelbana

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