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Above ground

//əˈbʌvˌɡɹaʊnd// prep_phrase

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  1. 1
    On or above the surface of the ground.

    ""This place Rome? It is but the tomb of mighty Rome." He showed Gerard . . . the gigantic vestiges of antiquity that peeped aboveground here and there."

  2. 2
    Not dead and buried; alive. figuratively

    "Alice: I told you, he don't have no wife, not aboveground, anyhow."

  3. 3
    Not of or relating to the social or political underground; in the open; existing within or produced by the establishment.

    "More disturbing was that zines and underground culture didn't seem to be any sort of threat to this aboveground world."

Etymology

From above + ground.

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