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 stowaway
John Hopewell, Variety, 8 May 2025
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
Rylee Johnston, Travel + Leisure, 3 May 2025
Even a few hundred dollars stowed away can help save you from more credit card debt when your washing machine needs repairs.
—Rachel Barber, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
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Noun
In the sequel, the ark is now on dry land and the stowaway rats, Vini and Tito alongside female rat Nina, visit the other animals who have disembarked.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 8 May 2025
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
Verb
This warm-weather sleeping bag is also less than $50 and can pack down into a compact size that’s easy to stow away when you’re done using it.
—Rylee Johnston, Travel + Leisure, 3 May 2025
Even a few hundred dollars stowed away can help save you from more credit card debt when your washing machine needs repairs.
—Rachel Barber, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
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On May 19, 1977, 20-year-old Colleen was hitchhiking on the way from her Eugene, Ore., home to a friend’s birthday party when she was picked up by a couple, Cameron and Janice, who had their baby in the car.—
Makena Gera,
People.com,
20 May 2025
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When Stan Love would take a shower, Mike Love wrote, Mr. Wilson would sometimes sneak out in his robe and hitchhike in search of drugs.—
Jeré Longman,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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The Savannah Bananas thumbed their nose at such nonsense.—
Emma Moon,
Charlotte Observer,
5 June 2025
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The Manchester-by-the-Sea health board has thumbed its nose at voters with callous indifference.—
Peter Brennan,
Boston Herald,
26 May 2025
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With his keffiyeh, aviator sunglasses, and beard stubble, Arafat first received media attention in the 1960s and 1970s, when the PLO was hijacking airplanes and perpetrating terrorist attacks.—
Sean Durns,
The Washington Examiner,
6 June 2025
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Microsoft accounts are now at risk from a new attack that has hijacked Google’s App Scripts to provide a veil of authenticity when sending malicious phishing emails.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2025
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The impressive team effort enables nematodes to hitch rides on passing insects to more favorable habitats and bridge otherwise untraversable gaps, Ding and her co-authors suggest.—
Lauren Leffer,
Popular Science,
5 June 2025
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At the time, Cruise’s love story with Katie Holmes felt inextricably linked to the third Mission: Impossible film, which saw Ethan Hunt getting hitched to Julia, played by Michelle Monaghan.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
23 May 2025
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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
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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 16 Jun. 2025.
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