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Definition of Stash

1. Verb. Save up as for future use. "They stash the money in the closet"

Definition of Stash

1. Noun. A collection, sometimes hidden; a reserve. ¹

2. Verb. To hide or store away for later use. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stash

1. to store in a secret place [v -ED, -ING, -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stash

Literary usage of Stash

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Memoirs of James Hardy Vauxby James Hardy Vaux by James Hardy Vaux (1819)
"stash. To stash any practice, habit, or proceeding, signifies to put an end to, relinquish, or quash the same ; thus, a thief determined to leave off his ..."

2. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"When I wrapped the skins around me and lay down, I noticed that stash lay with ... It was he who placed his arms about stash and said, ' My brother in sin, ..."

3. Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: Revised and Corrected ...by Francis Grose by Francis Grose (1823)
"stash. To stash any practice, habit, or proceeding, signifies to put an end to, relinquish, or quash the same; thus, a thief determined to leave off his ..."

4. Studies in English, Written and Spoken: For the Use of Continental Students by Cornelis Stoffel (1894)
"25, 1888, 90": "Now then, stash that grin, or he'll think it's all chaff"; Punch, 1879, Vol. II (Vol. ..."

5. The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal by John Camden Hotten (1874)
"stash, to cease doing anything, to refrain, be quiet, leave off; ... ie, be quiet, sir; to give over a lewd or intemperate course of life is to stash it. ..."

6. Street Verse: 80 New Poems for Befuddled Investors by Michael Silverstein (2003)
"Cash, cash, wonderful cash, You can flash it or stash it, there's no pain with cash. While its hard to keep track when your assets are many, With cash you ..."

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