noun [sing.]
1 the people and activities involved in crime in a particular place:
the criminal underworld * the Glasgow underworld * the dark underworld of drug abuse and petty crime
2 (the underworld) (in myths and legends, for example those of Ancient Greece) the place under the earth where people are believed to go when they die:
Orpheus in the Underworld
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