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▪ I. stash, n.2 U.S. colloq.|ʃtæʃ| [Abbrev.; cf. tash n.] = moustache n. 1 a.
1940D. W. Maurer Big Con 123 He had a little red stash, and he pulled it all out a few hairs at a time. 1955Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxiv. 147 The pickpocket will try to find out if the officer will cop. ‘That big fink with the stash will always cop’. 1966J. S. Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing 143/1 Stash moustache. Slang. 1971Time 5 July 55/1 Sandy is a superannuated swinger, complete with stash, burns and a 17-year-old hippie on his arm. ▪ II. stash, v. slang.|stæʃ| Also stach. [Of obscure origin.] 1. trans. To bring to an end, stop, desist from (a matter, a practice); to quit (a place). Often imp. stash it! stash that! † to stash the glim: to cease using the light. to stash up: to bring to an abrupt end. Also absol.
1794Sessions Papers 17 Sept. 1200/2 He says, Miller, it is, stash, I am satisfied. 1811Lex. Balatr. s.v., The cove tipped the prosecutor fifty quid to stash the business. 1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict. s.v., Thus a thief determined to leave off his vicious courses will declare that he means to stash (or stow) prigging... To stash drinking, card-playing, or any other employment you may be engaged in for the time present. Ibid., Stash it: see Stow it. 1823‘Jon Bee’ Dict. Turf s.v., ‘Stash the glim’, to put out lights, or to place an extinguisher on the candle. 1889‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms (1890) 99 The rest of us..as they was sold, stashed the camp and cleared out different ways. 1903W. Craig Adv. Austral. Goldf. 229 She is requested to ‘stash’ tragedy and give them comedy. 1909H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay iii. iv, She brought her [piano] playing to an end by—as schoolboys say—‘stashing it up’. 2. To conceal, to hide; to put aside for safe keeping; to stow or store. Freq. with away. Formerly Criminals' slang; orig. U.S. in revived mod. use.
1797Humphry Potter's Dict. Cant & Flash Lang. (ed. 3) 55 Stach, to conceal a robbery. 1821Sessions Papers 14 Dec. 66/1 He begged of me to stash it, which means say nothing about it. 1914Jackson & Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 80 Stash,..to hide;..to cease talking; to ‘plant’. 1927Dialect Notes V. 477 Billy he done stashed the jug in th' brush, an' now the damned ol' fool caint find hit! 1937C. R. Cooper Here's to Crime v. 102 A friend of mine had it stached in his cellar, in a fruit jar. 1937D. Runyon in Collier's 16 Jan. 9/4 She must have some scratch of her own stashed away somewhere. 1944Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 25 May 6/6 A customer at least has a sporting chance to pick up a bottle of brandy, gin, or rum if the dealer doesn't have a bottle of old Kentucky corn julep stashed away under the counter for him. 1952Manch. Guardian Weekly 20 Mar. 4/3 The big gift already stashed away in the farmers' bank accounts. 1962J. Heller Catch-22 vi. 51 Just when I was all set to really start stashing it away they had to manufacture fascism and start a war. 1970R. Price Howling Arctic i. 15 Travel proved too difficult after a while so they stashed the sledges and walked on. 1974F. Forsyth Dogs of War (1975) i. i. 39 With all fees paid, he netted a cool {pstlg}500,000, which was still stashed in the Zwingli Bank. 1978J. A. Michener Chesapeake 670 The watermen ferried dead birds to the ice shelf, stashed them and returned to fetch others. ▪ III. stash, n. slang (orig. and chiefly U.S.).|stæʃ| Also stach. [f. the vb.] 1. a. Something, or a collection of things, stashed away; a hoard, stock; a cache.
1914Jackson & Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 80 Stash,..used as a noun in the sense of something cached. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §207/5 Cache..stach, stash, stash-away. 1954Webster, Stash,..something stashed away or the place where it is stashed. 1969New Yorker 31 May 90/1, I liked..the stash of Pucci shifts. 1970G. Jackson Let. 26 Mar. in Soledad Brother (1971) 199, I want my food and drink from the people's stash. 1975B. Garfield Hopscotch xxv. 257 If he told Oakly the truth about going to ground then he'll want to clean out his stash..he's..got to have money. 1979Daily Tel. 10 Apr. 3/2 Chief Insp. Newark said he was satisfied Barnes had no stashes of money hidden away. 1980Encounter May 37 Even crane-crews angle For a share of the stash, Their lines urging up A grey, enormous catch. b. A cache of an (illegal) drug; a quantity (of a drug); the drug itself. (See also quot. 1942.)
1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §509/12 Stash, concealed equipment for taking narcotics. 1953W. Burroughs Junkie iii. 36 Taking junk hidden by another junkie is known as ‘making him for his stash’. It is difficult to guard against this form of theft because junkies know where to look for a stash. 1959[see bust n.3 f]. 1967Trans-Action Apr. 11/1 Someone cruises by in a car and brings a nice ‘stash’ of ‘weed’. 1968T. Wolfe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test xi. 133 The Hermit{ddd}was..keeper of the communal acid stash down there in the cave. 1975High Times Dec. 11/1 Anyone who turns stash knows that most people will pay any price to get high. 1978N.Y. Times 30 Mar. b1/2 A number of dubious substances, such as ‘African Yohimbe Smokestuff’. This, the label said, should be added ‘to your regular stash to turn your domestic green into African Red’. 1982Guardian 14 Dec. 11/6 The hairy young man in Lee Cooper jeans..asking ‘Anyone seen my stash?’ 2. slang (orig. Criminals'). A hiding-place, a hide-out; a rendezvous; a dwelling, ‘pad’.
1927Amer. Speech II. 390/2 A stash is a hiding-place. 1930R. Chadwick in Liberty 23 Aug. 33/2 If we were on a bank job in a strange city the stash would be in a room we had rented several weeks in advance. In a small town, though, you don't have any stash, because an hour after you moved in everybody in the burg would be checking in. 1946Mezzrow & Wolfe Really Blues viii. 132 No Hotel Ritz for us this time; our stash was over some kind of feed store. 1963L. Deighton Horse under Water xviii. 77 We set up ‘Art for the Average Guy, Inc.’, just a little stash on East 12th. 1965Listener 7 Jan. 31/2 Susan Sontag went to see Philip Johnson, the New York architect, or rather she ‘moseyed along to his stash on Park’. |