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Word entry · 8 letters

stowaway

Best crossword clue

"Hidden passenger"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /ˈstəʊəˌweɪ/Part of speech nounSorted aaostwwyStarts with SEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a person who hides aboard a ship or plane in the hope of getting free passage

Word origin

From stow away, from stow and away.

Used in a sentence

  • “Oh, I don't mind 'em, sir,” said Archy; “I knew it all before now. Didn't I hear 'em in the hold? And didn't I tell Cabaco here of it? What say ye, Cabaco? They are stowaways, Mr. Flask.”
  • In every sense of the expression he is ‘on deck’; but my Jim, for the most part, skulked down below as though he had been a stowaway.
  • One explanation came to me, and I leaped at it—the possibility of a stowaway hidden in the hold, some maniacal fugitive who had found in the little cargo boat’s empty hull ample room to hide.

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