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a passenger who paid in nerve instead of fare, betting everything on going unseen.
means A person who hides aboard a ship, plane, or other vehicle to travel secretly without paying or being authorized.
from A compound of "stow" and "away" — "stow" descends from the Old English "stōw," meaning a place or spot, related to words for standing and putting-in-place. To "stow" something was to put it safely in its proper spot, the very verb of packing a ship's hold. So a "stowaway" is, quite literally, someone stowed away — tucked into the cargo like another crate, just hopefully without anyone noticing the crate has a heartbeat. The word emerged in the age of merchant sail, when a ship's hold was the easiest place in the world to vanish into.
- wheel well
- Jet stowaways freeze and suffocate at cruising altitude
- survival odds
- Roughly one in four plane stowaways survives
- legal twist
- Ship captains can be fined for arriving stowaways
- shark cargo
- Snakes and spiders sneak in via fruit shipments
- oldest trick
- Trojan horse was history's most famous stowaway scheme
blind passenger ship 1947 — polish refugee piotr kulakowski stowed away on the ss batory from gdańsk to new york, surviving 9 days hidden in the ship