as in hijacker
someone who hides on a ship, airplane, etc., in order to travel without paying or being seen
A stowaway was discovered on the ship.
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Recent Examples of stowaway
John Annese, New York Daily News, 16 Jan. 2025
Declutter your living room with the help of this beautiful stowaway coffee table by Barrymore.
—Nora Colomer, Fox News, 14 Jan. 2025
Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 20 Dec. 2024
And all this fits into a slim 0.65-inch (16.6-mm) build that should be easy to stow away anywhere – unlike other options such as the $120 Fenix PD36R Pro.
—New Atlas, 27 Jan. 2025
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Noun
She was formally indicted earlier this week on a federal stowaway charge that carries a maximum five-year sentence, and pleaded not guilty on Wednesday.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 16 Jan. 2025
Declutter your living room with the help of this beautiful stowaway coffee table by Barrymore.
—Nora Colomer, Fox News, 14 Jan. 2025
Verb
Being able to fold the cargo bike down would also be useful for folks who don't have the luxury of a garage to stow away a full-size Long John between rides.
—Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 20 Dec. 2024
And all this fits into a slim 0.65-inch (16.6-mm) build that should be easy to stow away anywhere – unlike other options such as the $120 Fenix PD36R Pro.
—New Atlas, 27 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stowaway
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The first incident describes an alleged rape in 1971 when the plaintiff, then a 14-year-old student, was sent on a hitchhiking errand by a school dormitory counselor to purchase groceries from a nearby Kosher grocery store, Shapiro’s.—
Glynis Kazanjian,
Baltimore Sun,
7 Apr. 2025
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The complaint alleges that staff regularly sent students unattended to hitchhike for errands.—
Glynis Kazanjian,
Baltimore Sun,
7 Apr. 2025
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Williams seemed to thumb his nose at the proceedings.—
Ronan Farrow,
The New Yorker,
24 Mar. 2025
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Maine high school athlete Cassidy Carlisle expounded on her message to Gov. Janet Mills as the state continued to thumb its nose as President Donald Trump and maintain its transgender-athlete policies in girls' and women’s sports.—
Ryan Gaydos,
Fox News,
24 Mar. 2025
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Cholinesterase inhibitors Alzheimer’s disease hijacks the brain by slowly destroying its nerve cells, which triggers a cascade of cognitive turmoil like gradually escalating forgetfulness, difficulties with planning or organizing, and an uptick in confusion or moodiness.—
Alisa Hrustic,
SELF,
24 Mar. 2025
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What disheartens us is that these opportunities for genuine discourse are being hijacked by extremists and people whose behavior is disruptive and unproductive.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Mar. 2025
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They got hitched in 2017 but Cardi filed for divorce in 2024 for the second time.—
Elizabeth Ayoola,
Essence,
2 Apr. 2025
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Resume details aside, while one hates to hitch an actress’s castability to something as random and mutable as her appearance, Pidgeon also has exactly the pensive, porcelain-skinned, vaguely patrician beauty necessary to make a credible CBK.—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
22 Mar. 2025
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Wolf Blitzer appears with a CNN breaking news update of sheer panic in the trailer (below): The country has been hit with widespread technology outages, computers have been highjacked and there are significant casualties.—
Jackie Strause,
The Hollywood Reporter,
22 Jan. 2025
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Getty Images / Vincent Sandoval / Contributor For the second time in two weeks, printers across the world have been highjacked, rolling out page after page of odd propaganda.—
Chris Stokel-Walker,
WIRED,
13 Dec. 2018
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“Stowaway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stowaway. Accessed 17 Apr. 2025.
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