Undergrounder
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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, […]"
- 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."
Example
More examples"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, […]"
Etymology
From underground + -er (Variety “-er”) or + -er (occupational suffix).