The Collaborative International Dictionary
Underplot
Underplot \Un"der*plot`\, n.
A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it.
--Dryden.A clandestine scheme; a trick.
--Addison.
Wiktionary
underplot
n. A subplot; a plot that is not the main plot of a story.
Usage examples of "underplot".
It is a charitable institution, which, at certain times and in certain places, may have been a pretext for criminal underplots got up for the overthrow of public order, but is there anything under heaven that has not been abused?
The situation he had chosen, so near the Houses of Parliament, was convenient to politicians, and, by degrees, the large dingy drawing-rooms became a frequent resort for public men to talk over those thousand underplots by which a party is served or attached.