Etymology 1
Unknown. Perhaps a blend of stick + cache or stow + cache.
Noun
stash (countable and uncountable, plural stashes)
- (countable) A collection, sometimes hidden; a reserve.
They had quite a stash of food saved up for emergencies.
- (countable, US, slang, informal, African-American Vernacular) 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.
- (uncountable, UK, slang) Clothing or other items branded with a particular university club or society's logo.
We've now ordered stash for everyone who said they wanted some.
- (countable, textiles) A collection of yarn or other materials not yet allocated to any particular craft project.
2021, Julie Cicora, Contemplative Knitting, page 131:My stash is mostly unfinished objects on the needles. I have one bag of yarn that I bought to make a coat.
Translations
collection
- Bulgarian: таен склад (taen sklad)
- Catalan: reserva f; amagatall (ca) m; partida (ca) f, dipòsit (ca) m (de droga, contraban, etc.)
- Finnish: kätkö (fi)
- French: réserve secrète f, planque (fr) f, cachette (fr) f
- German: (geheimes) Versteck n, Vorrat (de) m
- Russian: тайни́к (ru) m (tajník); (colloquial) зага́шник (ru) m (zagášnik); (slang or colloquial) ны́чка (ru) f (nýčka), заны́чка f (zanýčka), зана́чка (ru) f (zanáčka),
- Serbo-Croatian: zaliha (sh), tajna zaliha, залиха f, тајна залиха f
- Spanish: reserva (es), secreto (es), depósito (es) m, alijo (es) m
- Swedish: gömma (sv) c
- Turkish: gizli depo (tr)
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Verb
stash (third-person singular simple present stashes, present participle stashing, simple past and past participle stashed)
- (transitive) To hide or store away for later use.
- Synonym: hive up
He stashed his liquor in the cabinet under the bar.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 3, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 27:“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.
1989 August 12, Phil Harper, “Why It's So Hard To Talk About This Movie”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 5, page 10:All of the Do The Right Thing characters who are caught up in the quagmire of racial politics are male, while the women in the movie […] are all safely stashed away in their domestic spaces.