WordNet
n. a system of clandestine printing and distribution of dissident or banned literature [syn: samizdat]
Wikipedia
The terms underground press or clandestine press refer to periodicals and publications that are produced without official approval, illegally or against the wishes of a dominant (governmental / religious / institutional) group. In specific recent (post-World War II) Asian, American and Western European context, the term "underground press" has most frequently been employed to refer to the independently published and distributed underground papers associated with the counterculture of the late 1960s and early 1970s in India and Bangladesh in Asia, in the United States and Canada in North America, and the United Kingdom and other western nations. It can also refer to the newspapers produced independently in repressive regimes. In German occupied Europe, for example, a thriving underground press operated, usually in association with the Resistance. Other notable examples include the samizdat and bibuĊa, which operated in the Soviet Union and Poland respectively, during the Cold War.
Usage examples of "underground press".
The fireplace was crammed with unburned wax milk cartons, candy bar wrappers, newspapers from the underground press, and kitty litter.
Nothing in the underground press is copyrighted, so you can reprint an interesting article from another paper.
He had located the underground press - in a disused warehouse on the Isle of Dogs, near the India and Mill-wall docks.
SUN, whom the underground press worshipped, whom, their scriptures foretold, would be 'welcomed by the many and feared by the few'.
Natural causes, although there was some gossip in the underground press around Aspen that she drank herself to death.
She was a youngish girl, the bloom of youth just off her cheeks, secretly working in an underground press.
I was an innocent who had answered an intriguing ad in the underground press.