stash

[stash]

verb (used with object)

1. to put by or away as for safekeeping or future use, usually in a secret place (usually followed byaway ).

   The squirrel stashes away nuts for winter.

noun

1. something put away or hidden.

   a stash of gold coins buried in the garden.

2. a place in which something is stored secretly; hiding place; cache.

3. Slang.,  a supply of hidden drugs.

stash

/ stæʃ /

verb

1. informal,  to put or store (money, valuables, etc) in a secret place, as for safekeeping

noun

1. informal,  a secret store or the place where this is hidden

2. slang,  drugs kept for personal consumption

Word History and Origins

Origin of stash¹

1775–85; blend of stow and cache

Word History and Origins

Origin of stash¹

C20: origin unknown

Example Sentences

He said Eric told Mead to go into his bedroom and find pills he had stashed there.

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They stash away so much money that it actually undermines their financial and emotional health.

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When auditors came to search Freymond’s desk, the story took a farcical turn: Freymond had tried to dispose of the incriminating papers by stashing them outside his office window, on the cornice.

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When he’s stashing the stolen paintings later in a farmhouse’s hayloft and accidentally knocks the ladder out from under him, the moment is amusing and appropriately metaphorical.

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Once again, a flood of fuel is being stashed offshore.

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Related Words

• bury 
• conceal 
• disguise 
• hole up 
• lock up 
• secrete 
• smuggle 
• tuck away