- 1the 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
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- 2the 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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