stowaway
noun/ˈstəʊəˌweɪ/
Etymology
From stow away, from stow and away.
Definitions
A person who hides on board a ship, train, etc. so as to get a free passage.
- “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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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA