above ground

phrase

1. On or above the surface of the ground. "This place Rome? It is but the tomb of mighty Rome." He showed Gerard . . . the gigantic vestiges of antiquity that peeped aboveground here and there.
2. figuratively Not dead and buried; alive. Alice: I told you, he don't have no wife, not aboveground, anyhow.
3. Not of or relating to the social or political underground; in the open; existing within or produced by the establishment. More disturbing was that zines and underground culture didn't seem to be any sort of threat to this aboveground world.