underground fighter
Covert rebel combatant
An underground fighter is someone who participates in illegal or unsanctioned combat, typically bare-knuckle boxing or mixed martial arts held in secret locations: He made money as an underground fighter before going pro.
The term also describes a member of a clandestine resistance movement fighting against an occupying force or oppressive regime: Underground fighters sabotaged the railway lines.
- rebelAuthority defier
- guerrillaIrregular armed fighter
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
- resistance movementOrganized opposition to occupation
- partisanBiased toward one side
insurgent · armed struggle · saboteur · night raid · operative · secret agent · clandestine · cell · safehouse · tunnel · behind enemy lines · safe passage · false papers · smuggler · courier · dead drop · spy · militia
- brawlersbrawler, bruiser, scrapper, slugger, roughneck
- insurgentsinsurgent, guerrillas, guerrilla, rebel, partisan
- Patriotspatriot, Paul Revere, Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams, founding father
- dissidentsdissident, dissidents, dissenter, rebel, Sakharov
underground fighterenlisted soldier
Non-officer in armed forces
conventional forces · professional soldier · government forces · military officer
underground fighterpublic defender
Attorney representing those unable to afford one
underground, fighter, under, ground, fight, grounds, grounded, grounding, groundless