as in hijacker
someone who hides on a ship, airplane, etc., in order to travel without paying or being seen
A stowaway was discovered on the ship.
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Recent Examples of stow away
Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 6 July 2025
Palmer still has the dining room table, where Capitol Meridian started several years ago, stowed away in the firm’s office.
—Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 3 July 2025
Rebecca Rosman, NPR, 28 Sep. 2025
Aviation safety experts note that stowaways who make it through such flights are often unconscious during landing, which puts them at serious risk of falling when the landing gear is deployed.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
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Noun
This leaves the smartphone’s storage ready for more photos while the phone’s owner knows their precious photos and videos are safely stowed away on the NAS.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 6 July 2025
Palmer still has the dining room table, where Capitol Meridian started several years ago, stowed away in the firm’s office.
—Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 3 July 2025
Verb
Cases of stowaways hiding in wheel wells are rare but not unprecedented — and survival is rarer still.
—Rebecca Rosman, NPR, 28 Sep. 2025
Aviation safety experts note that stowaways who make it through such flights are often unconscious during landing, which puts them at serious risk of falling when the landing gear is deployed.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stow away
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What Hicks longs to do, in the face of these multidirectional threats to life and liberty, is persuade April to run away with him, hitchhiking from Wisconsin to who knows where, like a pair of Depression-era hoboes, out of range of anyone who wishes them ill.—
Kathryn Schulz,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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Now Kiki is spooked, walks right out of the party, and basically hitchhikes a ride with some invisible truck driver.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
19 Sep. 2025
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Israel, a small nation dependent on our country for military support, is thumbing its nose at us, the most powerful country in the world.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
17 Sep. 2025
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That film now boasts a $247 million domestic haul, nothing to thumb your nose at, but nothing compared to the DCU's big Marvel counterprogramming for the summer season, Superman.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
17 Aug. 2025
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If your social media account is hijacked, scammers can use it to trick your friends, family or followers, spreading fraud even further under your name.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
23 Sep. 2025
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But this past weekend, users noticed the title was secretly installing malware on their PCs that could hijack cryptocurrency wallets.—
Senior Reporter,
PC Magazine,
22 Sep. 2025
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When Jean arrived with Wole, before the sun was high-hot, Kelly was already there, sitting tacky under Mickey Martinez’s arm, inside his red F-150, the boat hitched behind.—
David Wright Faladé,
New Yorker,
28 Sep. 2025
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In three weeks’ time, getting hitched in Los Angeles County will become significantly more expensive.—
Claire Wang,
Oc Register,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Stow away.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stow%20away. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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