stashbox

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English

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Etymology

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From stash +‎ box.

Noun

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stashbox (plural stashboxes)

  1. A box used to store a stash of something, especially illicit narcotics.
    • 1983, Mitch Cohen, Berlin, Contemporary Writing from East and West Berlin, Bandanna Books, →ISBN, page 19:
      People here are much more likely to have the 3 volumes of Marx's Kapital (cheap in East Berlin) on their shelves than a stashbox full of cannabis.
    • 2001, Mercedes Lackey & Rosemary Edghill, Baen Books (2001), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
      Inside the van was everything Chesley needed in this world: a mattress to sleep on, his toolcase, his stashbox, and a towering blue glass bong.
    • 2009, Julie Klauser, I Don't Care About Your Band: What I Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Sensitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I've Dated[1], Gotham Books, published 2010, →ISBN:
      He offered me ravioli and pot from the stashbox where he kept his coke and rolling papers, []
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:stashbox.