underground
1. un.der.ground \.*n-d*r-'grau.nd\ av 1: beneath the surface of the earth 2: in or into hiding or secret operation 2. un.der.ground \'*n-d*r-.grau.nd\ aj 1: being, growing, operating, or situated below the surface of the ground 2: conducted by secret means 3. underground \'*n-d*r-\ n 1: a subterranean space or channel 2: an underground city railway system 3a: a movement or group organized in strict secrecy among citizens esp. in an occupied country for maintaining communications, popular solidarity, and concerted resistive action pending liberation 3b: a clandestine conspiratorial organization set up for revolutionary or o ther disruptive purposes esp. against a civil order
Webster's English Dictionary