undergrounder

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Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
21
Letters
13
Pronunciation
/ˌʌn.dəˈɡɹaʊn.də/(UK)
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/ˌʌn.dəˈɡɹaʊn.də/(UK) · /ˌʌn.dɚˈɡɹaʊn.dɚ/(US)

Definition of undergrounder

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. An underground publication or movie.
    “1957, Manny Farber, "Underground Films", in Robert Walsh (ed.) Negative Space: Manny Farber on the movies (1998), p. 27, The excess that is so noticeable in Stevens's brawl is absent in the least serious undergrounder, […]”
    “1985, Abe Peck, Uncovering the Sixties: The Life and Times of the Underground Press, p. 51, Street people, day-trippers, and tourists pushed the paper's circulation to 117,000, the largest any community undergrounder would reach.”
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noun

  1. An underground publication or movie.
    “1957, Manny Farber, "Underground Films", in Robert Walsh (ed.) Negative Space: Manny Farber on the movies (1998), p. 27, The excess that is so noticeable in Stevens's brawl is absent in the least serious undergrounder, […]”
    “1985, Abe Peck, Uncovering the Sixties: The Life and Times of the Underground Press, p. 51, Street people, day-trippers, and tourists pushed the paper's circulation to 117,000, the largest any community undergrounder would reach.”
  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.”
  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.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From underground + -er (Variety “-er”) or + -er (occupational suffix).

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