underworld

1. N-SING The underworld in a city is the organized crime there and the people who are involved in it. 黑社會

...a Spanish Harlem underworld of gangs, drugs and violence. …一個成群結(jié)幫、販毒施暴的西班牙哈萊姆黑社會。

Some claim that she still has connections to the criminal underworld. 一些人聲稱她仍與犯罪的黑社會有聯(lián)系。