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[Bell Labs] To destroy, esp. of a data structure. Hardware gets toasted or fried, software gets roached. Probably derived from '70s and '80s drug slang; marijuana smokers used ‘roach’ to refer to the unsmokable remnant of a joint, and to ‘roach’ a joint was therefore to destroy it.

• Hair Styles - roach: roll of hair brushed straight back from forehead, sometimes to one side
• Fish
• Insects and arachnids
• Behavior or Personality
• Drug Names and Forms - roach: Slang. small butt end of marijuana cigarette

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Roach may refer to:

Animals

• Cockroach
• Fish, including
  • Certain members of family Cyprinidae
  • the genus Rutilus
    • Common Roach (Rutilus rutilus)
  • the California Roach of the monotypic genus Hesperoleucus

Other

• Roach (cannabis culture), the butt of a marijuana cigarette
• Roach (surname), people who bear the last name Roach
• Roach (headdress), traditional Native American headdress usually of porcupine hair
• Roach, Missouri, an unincorporated community in central Missouri
• Roach, Nevada, a rail siding in southern Nevad
• Roach, a character in Apocalypse Now
• Roach, a variant of the game pool (cue sports)
• Roach, a Zerg unit from video game StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
• Gary "Roach" Sanderson, a British playable character in Modern Warfare 2
• a part of a sail
• To clip, shave, or hog the mane of a horse
• a type of conformation of the back of a horse

See also

• Papa Roach, an American hard rock band
• Food truck, sometimes referred to as a "roach coach"
• Roach stone, a type of Portland Stone with lots of shell fragments within the stone

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Dansk (Danish)
1.
n. - [zool.] skalle

2.
n. - kakerlak, skod af en marihuanacigaret

3.
n. - gilling, kappe
v. tr. - bukle

Nederlands (Dutch)
kakkerlak

Français (French)
1.
n. - (Zool) gardon

2.
n. - (US) cafard, filtre de joint (argot des drogués)

3.
n. - (Naut) courbure externe d'une voile aurique
v. tr. - brosser (les cheveux) en formant un rouleau, tailler la crinière d'un cheval

Deutsch (German)
1.
n. - Plötze, Kakerlak

2.
n. - Küchenschabe

3.
n. - Gilling
v. - hochkämmen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (ΗΠΑ) κατσαρίδα, (ιχθυολ.) τσιρόνι, ασπρόψαρο
v. - κόβω (μαλλιά) κοντά, σαν βούρτσα

Italiano (Italian)
scarafaggio, lasca, spinello, tagliare a spazzola, abbisciare una vela

Português (Portuguese)
n. - barata (f)

Русский (Russian)
таракан, косяк, делать начес

Español (Spanish)
1.
n. - gobio

2.
n. - cucaracha, colilla, pucho de cigarrillo

3.
n. - estela
v. tr. - arquear, cortar la crin, peinar formando una onda

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - kackerlacka, (zool) mört
v. - (sjö) slå

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
1. 蟑螂

2. 欧鲤, 翻车鱼

3. 犬马等的弓背, 使成拱状

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
1.
n. - 犬馬等的弓背
v. tr. - 使成拱狀

2.
n. - 蟑螂

3.
n. - 歐鯉, 翻車魚

한국어 (Korean)
1.
n. - 잉어과의 민물고기

2.
n. - 바퀴벌레, 대마초 담배 꽁초, 경관

3.
n. - 가로 돛 아래쪽을 호상으로 자른 것, 빳빳이 서게 자른 말의 갈기
v. tr. - 짧게 자르다, 짧게 다듬다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ローチ, ゴキブリ, 警官

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) سمك نهري, الصرصور (فعل) قص شعر الحصان, يرتب الشعر كالحصان‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מין קרפיון‬
n. - ‮תיקן, בדל סיגרית-חשיש, מקק‬
n. - ‮קשת כלפי חוץ בשפה האחורית של מפרש‬
v. tr. - ‮קיצץ רעמת סוס, סירק (שיער) בקשת גבוהה לאחור‬

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