Stowaway

Definitions

A person who hides on board a ship, train, etc. so as to get a free passage.

Equivalents

Examples

““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⟳.”

“My client is an infant, a poor foreign immigrant who started scratch⟳ as a stowaway and is now trying to turn⟳ an honest penny.”

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