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stash

  [stash]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to put by or away as for safekeeping or future use, usually in a secret place (usually fol. by away): The squirrel stashes away nuts for winter.
–noun
2. something put away or hidden: a stash of gold coins buried in the garden.
3. a place in which something is stored secretly; hiding place; cache.
4. Slang. a supply of hidden drugs.
Origin:
1775–85; b. stow and cache
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stash   (stāsh)   
tr.v.   stashed, stash·ing, stash·es
To hide or store away in a secret place.
n.  

  1. A secret place where something is hidden or stored.

  2. Something, such as money or an illegal drug, that has been hidden or stored.


[Origin unknown.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
stash

  1. n.
    and stache. a mustache. : I cut my stash off because it was too much trouble to remember not to cut it off.
  2. tv.
    to hide something (somewhere). : Stash this under the chair until I can think of a place to put it.
  3. n.
    a concealed supply of drugs, especially marijuana; drugs and equipment to use them stored in a secret place. (Drugs.) : Albert's stash was never located by the fuzz.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

stash  (v.)
"to conceal, hide," 1797, criminals' slang, of unknown origin, perhaps a blend of stow and cache. The noun meaning "hoard, cache" is 1914, from the verb. Slang sense of "personal supply of narcotics" is from 1942.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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