Dictionary

stash en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /stæʃ/
• (US) audio

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps a blend of stick + cache or stow + cache.

Meanings

1. (countable) A collection, sometimes hidden.
   • If you want *real* booze, not the wash they serve here, come to my secret stash spot. 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Best Booze in the Universe Has Moved!, Kadara Port:
   • They had quite a stash of food saved up for emergencies.
   • Near-synonyms: cache, reserve, hoard
2. (US, countable, informal, qualifier:African-American Vernacular, slang) A place where drugs are stored.
   • The dealers managed to store the dope in the stash just in time to avoid being caught by the police.
3. (UK, slang, uncountable) Clothing or other items branded with a particular university club or society's logo.
   • We've now ordered stash for everyone who said they wanted some.
   • Near-synonyms: merch, swag
4. (countable) A collection of yarn or other materials not yet allocated to any particular craft project.
   • My stash is mostly unfinished objects on the needles. I have one bag of yarn that I bought to make a coat. 2021, Julie Cicora, Contemplative Knitting, page 131:

Forms

Deriveds

stashbox · destash

Synonyms

cache · reserve · swag · hoard · merch

Translations (28)

pt esconderijo (collection) · ru тайни́к (collection) · es reserva (collection) · ru зага́шник (collection) · ca amagatall (collection) · es alijo (collection) · sh tajna zaliha (collection) · fr réserve secrète (collection) · ca partida (collection) · fr planque (collection) · ru ны́чка (collection) · ru заны́чка (collection) · ca dipòsit (de droga, contraban) (collection) · pt reserva (collection) · sh тајна залиха (collection) · sh залиха (collection) · sv gömma (collection) · es depósito (collection) · ca reserva (collection) · fr cachette (collection) · ru зана́чка (collection) · sh zaliha (collection) · de Vorrat (collection) · es secreto (collection) · tr gizli depo (collection) · bg таен склад (collection) · de (geheimes) Versteck (collection) · fi kätkö (collection)

stash en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /stæʃ/
• (US) audio

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps a blend of stick + cache or stow + cache.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To hide or store away for later use.
   • All of the Do The Right Thing characters who are caught up in the quagmire of racial politics are male, while the women in the movie […] are all safely stashed away in their domestic spaces. 1989 August 12, Phil Harper, “Why It's So Hard To Talk About This Movie”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 5, page 10:
   • “Landlord,” said I, “tell him to stash his tomahawk there, or pipe, or whatever you call it; tell him to stop smoking, in short, and I will turn in with him. 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 3, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 27:
   • He stashed his liquor in the cabinet under the bar.

Forms

Deriveds

stasher · stashable · stash it · stash away

Synonyms

hive up

Translations (20)

fr mettre de côté (store away for later use) · nl opbergen (store away for later use) · pt guardar (store away for later use) · nl opslaan (store away for later use) · de bunkern (store away for later use) · nl verstoppen (store away for later use) · pt reservar (store away for later use) · ca reservar (store away for later use) · bg скътвам (store away for later use) · it mettere da parte (store away for later use) · es reservar (store away for later use) · pt arrecadar (store away for later use) · tr emin yere saklamak (store away for later use) · ru ны́кать (store away for later use) · id menimbun (store away for later use) · fi kätkeä (store away for later use) · it mettere in serbo (store away for later use) · ru припря́тывать (store away for later use) · de verstecken (store away for later use) · ru припря́тать (store away for later use)

stash en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /stæʃ/
• (US) audio

Etymology

Apheretic clipping of mustache.

Meanings

1. (informal, nonstandard, slang) A mustache.

Forms

Relateds

'tache · tache · tash