Other forms: stashed, stashes, stashing
To stash something is to hide it away for later. Stash the money, stashed under the bed, stash it somewhere safe.
It is informal and suggests both concealment and keeping. As a noun, a stash is the hidden supply: a stash of chocolate, a secret stash. It is often used of things people would rather not explain — a stash of cash, a drugs stash — which gives the word a slightly furtive tone even when nothing wrong is going on. Note stash away, which is the commonest form of the verb.
1verbstashTo hide something away for later.
“He stashed the presents in the garage so the children wouldn't find them.”
The word appeared in the eighteenth century and its origin is unknown — possibly a blend of stow and cache, which would suit the meaning exactly. Nobody has proved it.
unknown. Perhaps a stick and cache or stow and cache.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Holding & Carrying