stash
/stæʃ/
stash noun: a collection, sometimes hidden.
Noun (1)
stash (countable and uncountable, plural stashes)
- A collection, sometimes hidden.
- Near-synonyms: cache, reserve, hoard
- They had quite a stash of food saved up for emergencies.
- 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.
- Clothing or other items branded with a particular university club or society's logo.
- Near-synonyms: merch, swag
- We've now ordered stash for everyone who said they wanted some.
- 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
Verb
stash (third-person singular simple present stashes, present participle stashing, simple past and past participle stashed)
- To hide or store away for later use.
- He stashed his liquor in the cabinet under the bar.
- “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
- Synonyms:
- hive up
Noun (2)
stash (plural stashes)
- A mustache.
Proper noun capitalized: Stash
Stash (plural Stashes)
- A surname from German.
stash meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
stash in Tamil
- தொகுப்பு
stash in Bengali
- স্ট্যাশ
stash in Malayalam
- stow, store, pack
- ഭദ്രമായി ഒളിച്ചുവയ്ക്കുക, രഹസ്യസ്ഥലത്തു ശേഖരിച്ചു വയ്ക്കുക, കരുതിവയ്ക്കുക, ഒളിച്ചുവയ്ക്കുക, അടുക്കിവയ്ക്കുക, കെട്ടിവയ്ക്കുക
- hoard, cache, stock
- രഹസ്യനിക്ഷേപം, ശേഖരം, വൻശേഖരം, ഒളിശേഖരം, ഒളിച്ചുവച്ച ശേഖരം, ഒളിച്ചുവച്ച നിധി
stash in Kannada
- ಸ್ಟ್ಯಾಶ್, ಸ್ಟ್ಯಾಷ್
More languagesFewer languages
- stash in Indonesian
- menimbun
Examples of stash in a sentence
- 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...
- 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:
Synonyms of stash
Forms of stash
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | stashes |
| alternative form | 'stache |
| alternative form | stache |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | stashes |
| present participle | stashing |
| past participle | stashed |
| past | stashed |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Stashes |
Origin of stash
Unknown. Perhaps a blend of stick + cache or stow + cache.
Apheretic clipping of mustache.
Americanized spelling of German Stasch.
Words formed from stash
Words that rhyme with stash
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- hash
- mash
- rash
- plash
- thrash
- cache
- gash
- gnash
- goulash
- pash
- rehash
- sash
- bash
- bedash
- brash
- fash
- ganache
- overlash
- potash
- slapdash
- abash
- backslash
- backsplash
- calash
- gatecrash
- Kash
- midrash
- mishmash
- panache
- shamash
- shash
- stramash
- taplash
- apache
- bardash
- berdache
- Chumash
- encash
- haberdash
- heat rash
- keysmash
- Lagash
- Malagash
- Miminegash
- newsflash
- outflash
- overrash
- pearlash
Questions about stash
- What does stash mean?
- Stash means a collection, sometimes hidden.
- What is stash in Tamil?
- Stash in Tamil is தொகுப்பு. See Stash meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use stash in a sentence?
- If you want *real* booze, not the wash they serve here, come to my secret stash spot.
- What part of speech is stash?
- Stash can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce stash?
- Stash is pronounced /stæʃ/.
- What is the plural of stash?
- The plural of stash is stashes.
Words near stash in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: stash (page history and authors); Stash (page history and authors); stash (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stash (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); stash (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); stash (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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