All underworld synonyms
un·der·world
U u noun underworld
- mafia — a hierarchically structured secret organization allegedly engaged in smuggling, racketeering, trafficking in narcotics, and other criminal activities in the U.S., Italy, and elsewhere.
- mafiosi — a member of a Mafia or of a mafia.
- inferno — hell; the infernal regions.
- mafioso — a member of a Mafia or of a mafia.
- hell — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
- netherworld — the infernal regions; hell.
- by and by — presently or eventually
- hereafter — after this in time or order; at some future time; farther along.
- gangland — the world of organized crime; criminal underworld.
- gangsters — Plural form of gangster.
- abaddon — the Devil (Revelation 9:11)
- black hand — a group of Sicilian blackmailers and terrorists formed in the 1870s and operating in the US in the early 20th century
- otherworld — A world beyond death; an afterlife.
- offing — the state or fact of being off.
- cosa nostra — the branch of the Mafia that operates in the US
- aftertime — the time to come; the future
- racket — a light bat having a netting of catgut or nylon stretched in a more or less oval frame and used for striking the ball in tennis, the shuttlecock in badminton, etc.
- hades — Geology. the angle between a fault plane and the vertical, measured perpendicular to the strike of the fault; complement of the dip.
- gehenna — the valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where propitiatory sacrifices were made to Moloch. II Kings 23:10.
- lower world — Classical Mythology. the regions of the dead, conceived of as lying beneath the surface of the earth; Hades; the underworld.
- criminals — Plural form of criminal.
- afterworld — a world inhabited after death