stash
[stash] Show IPA
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
2.
something put away or hidden: a stash of gold coins buried in the garden.
3.
4.
Slang. a supply of hidden drugs.
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| — vb (often foll by away ) | |
| 1. | informal to put or store (money, valuables, etc) in a secret place, as for safekeeping |
| — n | |
| 2. | informal a secret store or the place where this is hidden |
| 3. | slang drugs kept for personal consumption |
| [C20: origin unknown] | |
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Word Origin & History
stash
"to conceal, hide," 1797, criminals' slang, of unknown origin, perhaps a blend of stow and cache. The nounmeaning "hoard, cache" is 1914, from the verb. Slang sense of "personal supply of narcotics" is from 1942.
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