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Roach   /roʊtʃ/   Listen
Roach

noun
1.
A roll of hair brushed back from the forehead.
2.
The butt of a marijuana cigarette.
3.
Street names for flunitrazepan.  Synonyms: circle, forget me drug, Mexican valium, R-2, roofy, rope, rophy.
4.
Any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests.  Synonym: cockroach.
5.
European freshwater food fish having a greenish back.  Synonym: Rutilus rutilus.
verb
1.
Comb (hair) into a roach.
2.
Cut the mane off (a horse).



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"Roach" Quotes from Famous Books



... other things in creation, the Queiss was far from realizing the expectations which its flattering appearance had excited. There was little water in the channel, and that little contained few trout; but roach were there in abundance. Now a roach, either at the end of my line or on the table, happens to be my aversion, and finding that I was perpetually deceived by the avidity with which the scaly monsters seized my fly, I soon wound up. Not so my boy. ...
— Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II • G. R. Gleig

... him. They had long and quite delightful talks about their route. They would go up this path and down that one and cross the other and go round among the fountain flower-beds as if they were looking at the "bedding-out plants" the head gardener, Mr. Roach, had been having arranged. That would seem such a rational thing to do that no one would think it at all mysterious. They would turn into the shrubbery walks and lose themselves until they came ...
— The Secret Garden • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... the word subsidy became unsavory to the public taste, and for some years after no subsidy measure, however carefully guarded or respectably backed, could find favor in Congress. A second project for subsidizing a new line to Brazil, proposed by John Roach, the noted American shipbuilder, in 1879, was among those ventured, only ...
— Manual of Ship Subsidies • Edwin M. Bacon

... because they are, as 'the Autocrat' says every traveler is, self-taught. I wish she would omit a few lessons in the 'Use of the Globes,' and teach the servants the use of hot water, corrosive sublimate, and roach-poison. ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

... soup. One uses carp, eels, tench, roach, perches, barbel, for the real waterzoei is always made of different kinds of fish. Take two pounds of fish, cut off the heads and tails, which you will fry lightly in butter, adding to make the sauce a mixed carrot and onion, three cloves, a pinch of white pepper, a sprig ...
— The Belgian Cookbook • various various


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