stashed; stashing; stashes
: to store in a usually secret place for future use
—often used with away
Examples of stash in a Sentence
Verb
The police found where he had stashed the drugs.
The gifts were stashed in the closet.
He stashed the equipment under the bed.
We wondered what they had stashed in their backpacks.
Noun
keeps a stash of tissues in her desk in case anyone needs one
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Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
By Monday, some eighteen hundred students had dropped by, and the goods had largely been picked clean—Tetris’d into Ubers, hauled down subway stairs, or just stashed in reusable bags.
—Ben McGrath, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Katie Rife, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2025
He's called to lead a task force (hence the title) when robberies at stash houses of a dangerous biker gang draw the attention of the FBI.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2025
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Verb
Thousands of pages of documents stashed in drawers, stuffed in bags, and piled in boxes in a bathtub chronicle every step of their 16-year quest for justice.
—Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
By Monday, some eighteen hundred students had dropped by, and the goods had largely been picked clean—Tetris’d into Ubers, hauled down subway stairs, or just stashed in reusable bags.
—Ben McGrath, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
Others are new, building on a genuinely fresh and funny revelation that explains not only a cold open involving yakuza gangsters half a world away in Osaka, but also why this quaint town is sitting on a stash of weaponry big enough to overthrow the governments of several small nations.
—Katie Rife, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2025
He's called to lead a task force (hence the title) when robberies at stash houses of a dangerous biker gang draw the attention of the FBI.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2025
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“Stash.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stash. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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stash
1 of 2 verb
: to store in a usually secret place for future use
stash
2 of 2 noun1
: a hiding place
used the cupboard as a secret stash
2
: something stored or hidden away
had a stash of money in the closet
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