stash
[stash]
- to put by or away as for safekeeping or future use, usually in a secret place (usually followed by away): The squirrel stashes away nuts for winter.
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- something put away or hidden: a stash of gold coins buried in the garden.
- a place in which something is stored secretly; hiding place; cache.
- Slang. a supply of hidden drugs.
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Origin of stash
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Contemporary Examples
M10 was captured last year during a raid by Chihuahua State Police on a stash house in Juárez.
These people, on the other hand, likely got their stash from some random dealer at a party or a concert.
The shipments are taken to a stash house in a suburb of Los Angeles controlled by a high-level member of the Michoachan cartel.
They are not interested in the dregs from my stash of clothes.
Could he have left the stash of dragonglass weapons discovered last season?
Historical Examples
It was amazing how much gold one man had been able to stash away.
Despoilers of the Golden EmpireGordon Randall Garrett
stash
- (tr often foll by away) informal to put or store (money, valuables, etc) in a secret place, as for safekeeping
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- informal a secret store or the place where this is hidden
- slang drugs kept for personal consumption
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Word Origin
C20: origin unknown
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Word Origin and History for stash
v.
"to conceal, hide," 1797, criminals' slang, of unknown origin, perhaps a blend of stow and cache. Related: Stashed; stashing.
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n.
"hoard, cache," 1914, from stash (v.). Slang sense of "personal supply of narcotics" is from 1942.
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