stash

See also: Stash

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stæʃ/

• Audio (US)

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• Homophone: stache
• Rhymes: -æʃ

Etymology 1

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

Noun

stash (countable and uncountable, plural stashes)

1. (countable) A collection, sometimes hidden; a reserve.

   They had quite a stash of food saved up for emergencies.

2. (countable, US, slang, informal, African-American Vernacular) 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. (uncountable, UK, slang) 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.

4. (countable, textiles) A collection of yarn or other materials not yet allocated to any particular craft project.
   • 2021, Julie Cicora, Contemplative Knitting, page 131:

     My stash is mostly unfinished objects on the needles. I have one bag of yarn that I bought to make a coat.

Translations

collection

• Bulgarian: таен склад (taen sklad)
• Catalan: reserva f; amagatall (ca) m; partida (ca) f, dipòsit (ca) m (de droga, contraban, etc.)
• Finnish: kätkö (fi)
• French: réserve secrète f, planque (fr) f, cachette (fr) f
• German: (geheimes) Versteck n, Vorrat (de) m
• Russian: тайни́к (ru) m (tajník); (colloquial) зага́шник (ru) m (zagášnik); (slang or colloquial) ны́чка (ru) f (nýčka), заны́чка f (zanýčka), зана́чка (ru) f (zanáčka),
• Serbo-Croatian: zaliha (sh), tajna zaliha, залиха f, тајна залиха f
• Spanish: reserva (es), secreto (es), depósito (es) m, alijo (es) m
• Swedish: gömma (sv) c
• Turkish: gizli depo (tr)

Verb

stash (third-person singular simple present stashes, present participle stashing, simple past and past participle stashed)

1. To hide or store away for later use.

   He stashed his liquor in the cabinet under the bar.

   • 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:

     “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.

Synonyms

• hive up

Translations

store away for later use

• Bulgarian: скътвам (bg) (skǎtvam)
• Catalan: reservar (ca)
• Dutch: opslaan (nl), opbergen (nl), verstoppen (nl)
• Finnish: kätkeä (fi)
• French: mettre de côté (fr)
• German: bunkern (de), verstecken (de)
• Indonesian: menimbun (id)
• Italian: mettere da parte, mettere in serbo
• Portuguese: reservar (pt)
• Russian: припря́тывать (ru) (priprjátyvatʹ), (slang) ны́кать (ru) (nýkatʹ)
• Spanish: reservar (es)
• Turkish: emin yere saklamak (tr)

Etymology 2

Apheretic clipping of mustache.

Alternative forms

• 'stache, stache

Noun

stash (plural stashes)

1. (nonstandard, informal, slang) mustache

Related terms

• 'tache, tache, tash

Anagrams

• shats, thass