Other forms: stowaways
A stowaway is somebody hiding on a ship or plane to travel without paying. Find a stowaway, a stowaway was discovered, travel as a stowaway.
It is dangerous rather than clever: stowaways in aircraft wheel wells almost never survive the cold and lack of oxygen, and ship stowaways face weeks without food or water. Ships have legal obligations to stowaways found aboard, and the arrangements for landing them are a real problem in maritime law. Note stow, meaning to pack away; and stow away as two words, which is the verb.
1nounstowawaySomebody hiding on a ship or plane to travel without paying.
“As a boy, he dreamed of sneaking onto a ship bound for America as a stowaway.”
stowaway is a hidden traveller.
From stow away, from stow and away.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA