underground railroad
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Underground Railroad¹
proper noun the Underground Railroad · Underground Railway
- The pre-American Civil War anti-slavery resistance movement dedicated to helping escaped slaves to reach safe territory.
underground railroad²
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After the historical Underground Railroad in the United States.
noun underground railroads
- A clandestine network used to exfiltrate dissidents out of their country. The trio quickly went underground, hiding in a friend’s house in their home city of Vladivostok, in Russia’s Far East, while seeking a way to escape the country and potentially lengthy prison sentences. That brought them to a group called In Transit, part of an extensive underground railroad that is
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