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What does underworld mean?

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Noun
  1. (mythology) The world of the dead, located underneath the world of the living; the afterlife.
  2. That part of society that is engaged in crime or vice.
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The novel reads like a homage to Leonard, with its rhythmic repartee, underworld characters and action-packed plot.
The police are trying their best, but all they can do is make nightly raids on the underworld and round up Dusseldorf's riff-raff.
He was very well-regarded by a lot of people and he bridged the gap between respectable society and the underworld.
If there's no washing machine, you may have to venture to the underworld which is the laundrette.
Bricked in and built around, the vaults became a warren of nooks, crannies and tunnels forming the historic city's underworld.
It reveals an alternative, rebel underworld in Istanbul, populated mainly by Kurds.

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