• IPA: /stæʃ/

stash (plural stashes)

1. A collection, sometimes hidden; a reserve.

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

2. (slang) 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.

• French: réserve secrète, planque, cachette
• German: geheimes Lager
• Russian: тайни́к
• Spanish: reserva, secreto, depósito, alijo

stash (stashes, present participle stashing; 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 13, Herman Melville, chapter 3, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299 ↗:

     “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.

• hive up

• French: mettre de côté
• German: bunkern, verstecken
• Italian: mettere da parte
• Portuguese: reservar
• Russian: припря́тывать
• Spanish: reservar

stash (plural stashes)

1. (non-standard, informal, slang) mustache