stow away

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   hide aboard a ship or a plane to get free transportation

   “The illegal immigrants stowed away on board the freighter”

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Questions about stow away

What does stow away mean?

stow away means "hide aboard a ship or a plane to get free transportation".

Is stow away a common word?

stow away is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.