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
ABC News, 10 July 2025
The Shenandoah sailed out of Melbourne on February 18, 1865, with some 42 new stowaways on board who promptly came out into the open and enlisted.
—Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 June 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
Prosecutors believe Dali attempted to fly as a stowaway on two earlier occasions.
—ABC News, 10 July 2025
The Shenandoah sailed out of Melbourne on February 18, 1865, with some 42 new stowaways on board who promptly came out into the open and enlisted.
—Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stow away
Verb
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Four years into his prison sentence, Manchester escaped from an Anson County prison and hitchhiked to Charlotte.—
Zach Dennis,
Charlotte Observer,
8 Sep. 2025
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Crowding out the understory Researchers think Japanese stiltgrass hitchhiked to the United States in the early 1900s.—
Sophie Hartley,
IndyStar,
28 Aug. 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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Today, Lone Star state legislators are thumbing their noses at the longstanding political norm, followed by every other state, of waiting until the next census before redrawing their congressional districts.—
Mercury News Editorial,
Mercury News,
15 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Help teams understand how devices hijack attention and become addictive coping mechanisms.—
Elan Gepner-Dales,
Rolling Stone,
3 Sep. 2025
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Within a few days, pain had hijacked my mom’s entire identity.—
Dr. Sanjay Gupta,
CNN Money,
2 Sep. 2025
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Her son, maybe six or seven years old, could effortlessly hitch himself up to the top of the park’s lampposts.—
Rivka Galchen,
New Yorker,
6 Sep. 2025
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The wagon, which was hitched to two horses, left the road and all eight passengers on board were ejected, authorities said.—
Sam Gillette,
PEOPLE,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Stow away.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stow%20away. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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