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.
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.
Origin of stash
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How to use stash in a sentence
On one summer lunch hour, Donna Ann Levonuk, 50, lifted a tub of diaper cream priced at $43.98—and then stashed it in her purse.
The Insane $11 Billion Scam at Retailers’ Return Desks | M.L. Nestel | December 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe kept it in a brown paper bag stashed in the bathroom of his office.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere are billions of unaccounted dollars stashed in Lebanon.
Speed Read: James Risen Indicts The War On Terror’s Costly Follies | William O’Connor | October 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHarvey then put the brain into a cider box and stashed it under a beer cooler.
Invasion of the Celebrity Body Snatchers, From Charlie Chaplin to Casey Kasem | Melissa Leon | July 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThey beat him, bound him and stashed him away in an apartment building in the projects.
A Horror Story of True-Life Anti-Semitism in France | Tracy McNicoll | April 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
He has plenty of money stashed away—I do too, of course—not that money means very much these days.
A Feast of Demons | William MorrisonBut the rest of us only come in with the mob, and soon as they was sold stashed the camp and cleared out different ways.
Robbery Under Arms | Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf Boldrewood"Or else he knows his ridiculous article on Toryism was too badly stashed by mine," he added.
Sinister Street, vol. 2 | Compton MackenzieSomebody stashed a bushmaster here in my locker to meet me when I dressed for surgery.
Vigorish | Gordon Randall GarrettDrink in hand, he went toward the closet, where his little black bag was stashed.
Hail to the Chief | Gordon Randall Garrett
British Dictionary definitions for stash
/ (stæʃ) /
(tr often foll by away) informal to put or store (money, valuables, etc) in a secret place, as for safekeeping
informal a secret store or the place where this is hidden
slang drugs kept for personal consumption
Origin of stash
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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