underground press

1. 1.

   a system of clandestine printing and distribution of dissident or banned literature

   Synonymssamizdat

   Broaderprint media

Questions about underground press

What does underground press mean?

underground press means "a system of clandestine printing and distribution of dissident or banned literature".

What is another word for underground press?

Close synonyms include samizdat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is underground press a common word?

underground press is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.