stowaway 1 of 2

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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stow away

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verb

as in to hitchhike

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Recent Examples of stowaway
Noun
A couple went on a camping trip in New Zealand, drove over 180 miles back home and then found a stowaway creature in their car. Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 5 May 2025 Whalers and pirates in the 18th and 19th centuries discovered tortoises to be the ideal stowaway meal. Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
Verb
Bonus: When the growing season's over, the structure folds down and stows away flat. Miranda Crowell, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Apr. 2025 Michelle and her new friend stow away in the back of a semi-truck owned by a smuggler named Keats (Chris Pratt, in autopilot mode). David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for stowaway
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Verb
  • Rosemary hitchhiked to the prison wearing a simple crepe and silk shawl to comfort her husband, brushing aside fears about the Zodiac Killer operating in the area.
    Susannah Cahalan, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The complaint alleges that staff regularly sent students unattended to hitchhike for errands.
    Glynis Kazanjian, Baltimore Sun, 7 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • On the heels of a 22-year attendance high and a TV ratings surge that thumbed its nose at the cord-cutting trends, the WNBA heads back to the court with a mission to convert even more casual observers into fans than was the case a year ago.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 16 May 2025
  • The state planned to keep its gender-eligibility policy to allow biological males to compete against females in sports, thumbing its nose at President Donald Trump's executive order.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 6 May 2025
Verb
  • In the past Hamas reportedly has hijacked food aid, retaining some for its own forces and selling what remains to the public.
    Dina Kraft, Christian Science Monitor, 20 May 2025
  • In effect, advocates of a higher SALT deduction have hijacked the entire budget process in pursuit of a self-serving carve-out that has crowded out everything else under discussion.
    The Editors, National Review, 20 May 2025
Verb
  • Load it with lumber, hitch a trailer, or even drive into a strong headwind, and that figure can drop faster than your enthusiasm on a Monday morning.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 13 May 2025
  • Instead, women’s football has been hitched to the Festival Girl Power Summer brandwagon.
    Megan Feringa, New York Times, 13 May 2025
Verb
  • Wolf Blitzer appears with a CNN breaking news update of sheer panic in the trailer (below): The country has been hit with widespread technology outages, computers have been highjacked and there are significant casualties.
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Getty Images / Vincent Sandoval / Contributor For the second time in two weeks, printers across the world have been highjacked, rolling out page after page of odd propaganda.
    Chris Stokel-Walker, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2018

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“Stowaway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stowaway. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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