stashn.1
/staʃ/, U.S. /stæʃ/ slang (originally and chiefly U.S.).
1.
a. Something, or a collection of things, stashed away; a hoard, stock; a cache.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > a secret place, hiding place > [noun] > for storage
hoarda1200
sticking place1578
cache1860
hide1884
stash1914
the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > that which is stored or a store > hidden away
hoard937
pose1440
hoarding1715
cache1836
stash1914
1914 L. E. Jackson & C. R. Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 80 Stash,..used as a noun in the sense of something cached.
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §207/5 Cache..stach, stash, stash-away.
1954 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Stash,..something stashed away or the place where it is stashed.
1969 New Yorker 31 May 90/1 I liked..the stash of Pucci shifts.
1970 G. Jackson Let. 26 Mar. in Soledad Brother (1971) 199 I want my food and drink from the people's stash.
1975 B. 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.
1979 Daily Tel. 10 Apr. 3/2 Chief Insp. Newark said he was satisfied Barnes had no stashes of money hidden away.
1980 Encounter 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.)
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a quantity of
piece1935
twister1936
stash1942
trey1967
weight1971
eight ball1987
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > a secret place, hiding place > [noun] > for storage > for illicit goods > contents of
plant1819
stash1942
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §509/12 Stash, concealed equipment for taking narcotics.
1953 W. S. 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 W. S. Burroughs Naked Lunch 15 Provident junkies..keep stashes against a bust.
1967 Trans-action Apr. 11/1 Someone cruises by in a car and brings a nice ‘stash’ of ‘weed’.
1968 T. Wolfe Electric Kool-aid Acid Test xi. 133 The Hermit..was..keeper of the communal acid stash down there in the cave.
1975 High Times Dec. 11/1 Anyone who turns stash knows that most people will pay any price to get high.
1978 N.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’.
1982 Guardian 14 Dec. 11/6 The hairy young man in Lee Cooper jeans..asking ‘Anyone seen my stash?’
2. slang (originally Criminals'). A hiding place, a hideout; a rendezvous; a dwelling, ‘pad’.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > a secret place, hiding place > [noun]
hidelsc975
hidela1300
bushc1330
hulkc1330
derna1340
tapissinga1340
coverta1375
hiding1382
loting-placea1398
cover14..
hiding placec1440
mewa1450
closetc1450
hole1483
cure1502
secret1530
shrouding place1571
ivy-bush1576
coney burrowa1586
hidlings1597
foxhole1606
shrouding corner1610
recess1611
subterfuge1616
latibule1623
latebra1626
blind1646
privacy1648
hide1649
retreat1697
rathole1770
hidey-hole1817
tod hole1846
hulster1880
hideout1885
cwtch1890
castle1898
lurk1906
stash1927
hideaway1930
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > lodging-place
nestOE
inningOE
hostela1325
lodgingsc1380
lodging-place14..
entry1457
logis1477
hospital?a1513
stay1566
lodge1571
allodgement1598
lodgementa1701
gite1798
put-up1844
hang-out1852
shebang1867
stash1927
pad1935
1927 Amer. Speech 2 390/2 A stash is a hiding-place.
1930 R. 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.
1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues viii. 132 No Hotel Ritz for us this time; our stash was over some kind of feed store.
1963 L. Deighton Horse under Water xviii. 77 We set up ‘Art for the Average Guy, Inc.’, just a little stash on East 12th.
1965 Listener 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’.
Draft additions March 2019
Knitting colloquial. A person's collection of fabric, yarn, or other craft supplies, for use in future projects.
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1981 Playground Daily News (Fort Walton Beach, Florida) 23 Feb. 11 (advt.) Semi-Annual ‘Stash’ Sale: Fabric Trade-in.
2006 S. Pearl-McPhee Knitting Rules! ii. 32 The best way never to feel guilty about your stash is to think of yarn not as piles of recklessly purchased fiber..but instead as entertainment you've bought.
2017 @craftypinup 21 Aug. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Taking my mum fabric shopping in Birmingham tomorrow! Excited to top up my stash & plan some projects.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
stashn.2
/ʃtaʃ/ U.S. colloquial.
= moustache n. 1a.
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the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [noun] > moustache
mustachio1551
mustachio beard1566
moustache1585
mustachiosa1593
bigote1622
dibble1631
umbrage1657
whisker1706
lip-wing1825
facial hair1830
mousetail1853
lip-hair1873
lip-thatch1892
hackles1894
mo1894
tash1894
zit1912
mouser1922
stash1940
taz1951
stache1963
mush1967
1940 D. W. Maurer Big Con 123 He had a little red stash, and he pulled it all out a few hairs at a time.
1955 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. No. 24. 147 The pickpocket will try to find out if the officer will cop. ‘That big fink with the stash will always cop’.
1966 J. Stevens Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing & Wigmaking 143/1 Stash moustache. Slang.
1971 Time 5 July 55/1 Sandy is a superannuated swinger, complete with stash, burns and a 17-year-old hippie on his arm.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
stashv.
/staʃ/, U.S. /stæʃ/ slang.
1. transitive. To bring to an end, stop, desist from (a matter, a practice); to quit (a place). Often imperative stash it!, stash that!, †to stash the glim: to cease using the light. to stash up: to bring to an abrupt end. Also absol.
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)]
aswikec975
linOE
beleavec1175
forletc1175
i-swikec1175
restc1175
stutte?c1225
lina1300
blinc1314
to give overc1325
to do wayc1350
stintc1366
finisha1375
leavea1375
yleavec1380
to leave offa1382
refuse1389
ceasec1410
resigna1413
respite?a1439
relinquish1454
surcease1464
discontinue1474
unfill1486
supersede1499
desist1509
to have ado?1515
stop1525
to lay aside1530
stay1538
quata1614
to lay away1628
sist1635
quita1642
to throw up1645
to lay by1709
to come off1715
unbuckle1736
peter1753
to knock off1767
stash1794
estop1796
stow1806
cheese1811
to chuck itc1879
douse1887
nark1889
to stop off1891
stay1894
sling1902
can1906
to lay off1908
to pack in1934
to pack up1934
to turn in1938
to break down1941
to tie a can to (or on)1942
to jack in1948
to wrap it up1949
the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > become dark [verb (intransitive)] > go out or be extinguished > cease using a light
to stash the glim1794
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away from [verb (transitive)]
leaveeOE
beleavea1250
devoidc1325
voidc1330
roomc1400
wagc1400
departa1425
refusea1425
avoid1447
ishc1450
remove1459
absent1488
part1496
refrain1534
to turn the backc1540
quita1568
apart1574
shrink1594
to fall from ——1600
to draw away1616
to go off ——a1630
shifta1642
untenant1795
evacuate1809
exit1830
stash1888
split1956
1794 Sessions Papers 17 Sept. 1200/2 He says, Miller, it is, stash, I am satisfied.
1811 Lexicon Balatronicum (at cited word) The cove tipped the prosecutor fifty quid to stash the business.
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. (at cited word) 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.
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. (at cited word) Stash it: see Stow it.
1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang (at cited word) ‘Stash the glim’, to put out lights, or to place an extinguisher on the candle.
1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms I. xiv. 189 The rest of us..as they was sold, stashed the camp and cleared out different ways.
1903 W. Craig Adv. Austral. Goldfields 229 She is requested to ‘stash’ tragedy and give them comedy.
1909 H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay (U.K. ed.) 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. Frequently with away. Formerly Criminals' slang; originally U.S. in revived modern use.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > a secret place, hiding place > put in secret place [verb (transitive)]
plant1610
secrete1749
stash1797
cache1805
lair1851
the mind > possession > supply > storage > store [verb (transitive)] > in a concealed or remote place
to stow away1795
stash1797
cache1856
depot1921
squirrel1939
1797 H. T. Potter New Dict. Cant & Flash (ed. 3) 55 Stach, to conceal a robbery.
1821 Sessions Papers 14 Dec. 66/1 He begged of me to stash it, which means say nothing about it.
1914 L. E. Jackson & C. R. Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 80 Stash,..to hide;..to cease talking; to ‘plant’.
1927 Dial. Notes 5 477 Billy he done stashed the jug in th' brush, an' now the damned ol' fool caint find hit!
1937 C. R. Cooper Here's to Crime v. 102 A friend of mine had it stached in his cellar, in a fruit jar.
1937 D. Runyon in Collier's 16 Jan. 9/4 She must have some scratch of her own stashed away somewhere.
1944 Daily 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.
1952 Manch. Guardian Weekly 20 Mar. 4/3 The big gift already stashed away in the farmers' bank accounts.
1962 J. 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.
1970 R. Price Howling Arctic i. 15 Travel proved too difficult after a while so they stashed the sledges and walked on.
1974 F. Forsyth Dogs of War (1975) i. i. 39 With all fees paid, he netted a cool £500,000, which was still stashed in the Zwingli Bank.
1978 J. A. Michener Chesapeake 670 The watermen ferried dead birds to the ice shelf, stashed them and returned to fetch others.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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