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Definition: Roach |
RoachNoun1. The butt of a marijuana cigarette. 2. Any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests. 3. European freshwater food fish having a greenish back. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "roach" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references) |
Etymology: Roach \Roach\, noun. [Old English rroche; compare to Anglo-Saxon reohha, Dutch rog, roch, German roche, Low German ruche, Danish rokke ray, Swedish rocka, and English ray a fish.]. (references) |
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Computing | Roach vt. [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. Source: Jargon File. |
Literature | Roach Sound as a roach (French, Sain comme une roche). Sound as a rock. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Sports & Leisure | The curve along the leech of a sail. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A cockroach is an insect of the order Blattodea (or Blattaria). The typical American or German cockroach is about 3 cm long, but tropical cockroaches can be much bigger. They are often found around garbage and are considered a pest in the kitchen. Female cockroaches, or henroaches, are sometimes seen carrying egg cases on the end of their abdomen; the egg case holds about 30 long, thin eggs, laid along the case. The eggs hatch into pale yellow nymphs that quickly inflate themselves with air and harden.
Cockroaches
Madagascan Hissing Cockroach
(Gromphadorhina portentosa).
This insect is 3 inches (8 cm) long.
See main text for more information.
Larger version
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Subclass: Pterygota Superorder: Neoptera Order: Blattodea Families Blaberidae
Blattellidae
Blattidae
Cryptocercidae
Polyphagidae
Ref: ITIS 102427 2002-12-11Notes on the picture:
The Madagascan Hissing Cockroach is a large flightless insect from the forests of Madagascar. It lives under the bark of trees or in leaf litter, feeding on plant matter including leaves and fallen fruit.
Any predator that catches one of these cockroaches is in for a double shock. The legs of this insect are covered in needle sharp spines and the cockroach can make a loud hissing sound. It does this by forcing air out of the breathing holes that runs along the side of its body.
This is one of the largest cockroaches in the world and can reach 8 cm (3 inches).
Although they live in the forest they are attracted by house lights and will sometimes creep through open windows. However they are harmless and will soon leave when disturbed.
The Masagascan Hissing Cockroach is often used in television and films where a large scary looking insect is required, giving this harmless creature an undeserved reputation.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cockroach."
Synonym: RoachSynonym: cockroach (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Health | On one's legs; sound as a roach, sound as a bell; fresh as a daisy, fresh as a rose, fresh as April; hearty as a buck; in fine feather, in high feather; in good case, in full bloom; pretty bobbish, tolerably well, as well as can be expected. |
Perfection | Adjective: perfect, faultless; indefective, indeficient, indefectible; immaculate, spotless, impeccable; free from imperfection; unblemished, uninjured; sound, sound as a roach; in perfect condition; scathless, intact, harmless; seaworthy; (safe); right as a trivet; in seipso totus teres atque rotundus; consummate; (complete); finished. |
Strength | Stubborn, thick-ribbed, made of iron, deep-rooted; strong as a lion, strong as a horse, strong as an ox, strong as brandy; sound as a roach; in fine feather, in high feather;stubborn, thick-ribbed, made of iron, deep-rooted; strong as a lion, strong as a horse, strong as an ox, strong as brandy; sound as a roach; in fine feather, in high feather; built like a brick shithouse; like a giant refreshed. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Roach |
| English words defined with "roach": Azurine ♦ Cyprinidae ♦ family Cyprinidae ♦ head shop ♦ roach clip, roach holder, Roach-backed, rudd ♦ Scardinius erythrophthalmus. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "roach": Hot-foot ♦ Sound as a Roach, stomp on ♦ walk off the end of. (references) |
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Screenplays | You're not a player, looking like a little roach. (Eddie; writing credit: Steve Zacharias; Jeff Buhai) | |
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Song Titles | Last Resort (performing artist: Papa Roach) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A picnic for tennant farmers of the Duke Power Co. near Mooresvill, North carolina. Dr. Hugh Hammond Bennett (left) first Chief of the Soil Conservation Service and Mr. Roach Stewart (Duke Power Co.). Credit: Unknown. |  | No more jitters about crawly critters-our new roach bait belongs to a family of insecticides called flurosulfonates. Discovered and patented by ARS scientists, these compounds work to control cockroaches, ants, and termites-insects that live in groups or colonies. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
 | Pot reefer spliff weed nickel joint roach dime bone bong hit hooch doobie grass gange shake smoke marijuana : no matter what you call it, don't call it harmless. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | "Doors marked 'Sealed 11-10-48--Do Not Open' were found by Boilerman First Class J.W. Roach ..., when opened aboard USS Latimer ..., first vessel of the Norfolk Reserve Fleet to be readied for recommissioning." Quoted caption was released with this photo on 3 August 1950. Latimer had decommissioned at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, on 26 February 1947. She recommissioned on 23 September 1950, as the active fleet was being expanded during the Korean War. Credit: NAVY. |
 | John Roach. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Plymouth, West Virginia. George Roach, a native of the region and friendly to Red House Farms, federal homestead project at Eleanor, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Hissing Roach on a pumpkin" by Ariel C. Commentary: "Hissing Roach on a pumpkin." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Roach" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 74.32% of the time. "Roach" is used about 222 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 74.32% | 165 | 24,305 |
| Noun (proper) | 22.07% | 49 | 48,677 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.6% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 222 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "roach" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Roach | Last name | 16,000 | 762 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Roach, MO |
Expressions using "roach": as sound as a roach ♦ blue roach ♦ oriental roach ♦ roach clip ♦ roach holder. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "roach": Roach-backed, roach-bream, roach-exterminator, roach-killers. | |
Ending with "roach": Casares-roach. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
papa roach | 1,981 | popa roach | 23 |
prudential fox roach | 347 | pappa roach | 23 |
roach | 273 | hal roach | 22 |
papa roach lyrics | 181 | roach clip | 22 |
fox roach | 125 | jack roach ford | 22 |
last lyrics papa resort roach | 94 | coach roach | 18 |
roach control | 76 | love lyrics not papa roach she | 17 |
fox prudential realtor roach | 68 | mary roach | 16 |
roach conveyor | 38 | michael roach | 16 |
max roach | 36 | papa roach mp3 | 16 |
cock roach | 35 | angel between insect lyrics papa roach | 16 |
fox realtor roach | 33 | jason roach | 15 |
papa roach tab | 33 | papa roach picture | 14 |
last resort papa roach | 31 | broken home lyrics papa roach | 14 |
roach stephen | 31 | roach motel | 14 |
roach wood | 29 | estate fox prudential real roach | 14 |
roach killer | 29 | papa roach guitar tab | 13 |
steve roach | 28 | pap roach | 13 |
picture roach | 25 | poppa roach | 13 |
roach mo | 23 | archie roach | 13 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "roach"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | skort i bardhë, gurnec, flokë drizë, buburrec (Slater, wood louse). (various references) | |
Arabic | حشرة (bug, insect, mealy bug), سمك (fish, gudgeon, pisces, pouter, snapper), عقب السجائر, صرصور (cockroach), الروش سمك نهري. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хлебарка (cockroach), вид шаран. (various references) | |
Chinese | 蟑螂 (Cockroach). (various references) | |
Czech | plotice, šváb (cockroach). (various references) | |
Danish | skod (bulkhead), skalle, krykke (crutch, roach clip), almindelig skalle. (various references) | |
Dutch | voorn, blankvoorn. (various references) | |
Farsi | ماهی ریزقنات , کجوله , تخته سنگ (Boulder, Cliff, Crag, Slab), سوسک حمام , صخره (Cliff, Rock). (various references) | |
Finnish | särki. (various references) | |
French | gardon. (various references) | |
German | Rotauge, Plötze, Gilling. (various references) | |
Greek | πλατίτσα (chub). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תיקן (cockroach, water bug), בדל סיגריה (butt of cigarette, stub). (various references) | |
Hungarian | svábbogár (black-beetle, cockroach), csótány (cockroach), pirosszemű kele (red-eye). (various references) | |
Italian | triotto rosso, stecchino (roach clip), scarafaggio (beetle, cockroach, scraper), mozzicone (butt, end, stub, stump, tip over), bacchetta (baton, ferule, pointer, ramrod, rod, stick, wand), allunamento (camber, crop, crown of beam, round of beam). (various references) | |
Manx | roachey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oachray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ruivaca (chub, graining, skelly), recorte curvo, pardelha dos Alpes, leucisco, barata (churn oil mill, oil-press), aluamento. (various references) | |
Romanian | plãticã (flat fish, flounder), gândac de bucãtãrie (cockroach), babuşcã (red eye). (various references) | |
Russian | таракан (cockroach). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pramen kose (cowlick), pikavac od cigarete sa marihuanom, žutoperka. (various references) | |
Spanish | rutilo, tacha (blemish, reproach, taint), pardilla, muerto (casualty, dead, dead man, deceased, died, doornail, dull, dummy, expired, fatality, late, lifeless, lost, quiescent), escarcho (gurnard), cucaracha (cockroach), coloradilla, colilla (butt, cigarette end, stub), chicharrita, chicaharra, calandino, bermejuela. (various references) | |
Swedish | mört (dace). (various references) | |
Thai | แมลงสาบ (คำย่อจาก cockroach), ปลาน้ำจืดชนิดหนึ่ง (gar, sucker, sunfish). (various references) | |
Turkish | karaböcek (black beetle, cockroach), istralya payı, hamamböceği (black beetle, cockroach, croton bug), çamçak, çamça balığı. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | тараня, плотва (dace). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mạnh như trâu lăn. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Gardonus rutilis, Leuciscus rutilus, Rutilus rutilus, Rutilus rutilus(Linnaeus,1758). (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "roach": roached, roaches, roaching. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "roach": abroach, approach, broach, caroach, cockroach, encroach, reproach. (additional references) | |
Words containing "roach": approachabilities, approachability, approachable, approached, approaches, approaching, broached, broacher, broachers, broaches, broaching, caroaches, cockroaches, encroached, encroacher, encroachers, encroaches, encroaching, encroachment, encroachments, inapproachable, irreproachabilities, irreproachability, irreproachable, irreproachableness, irreproachablenesses, irreproachably, reproachable, reproached, reproacher, reproachers, reproaches, reproachful, reproachfully, reproachfulness, reproachfulnesses, reproaching, reproachingly, unapproachabilities, unapproachability, unapproachable, unapproachably. (additional references) | |
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"Roach" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: croach, Cruach, Froech, groach, Noach, orac, orache, orah, orak, orch, oroch, proact, Raach, racah, Rachh, raoh, Raouche, rauch, reachy, reacj, riac, Riach, ricah, riech, roace, roache, roacy, roash, roath, roch, rochat, Rochau, Rodach, roic, roih, roochy, Rouah, rouch, Roucy, Rowak, ruach, ruah, Rucaj, rusch, toach, triarch, Yoash. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "roach" (pronounced rō"kh) |
| 3 | r ō" kh | approach, broach, brooch, encroach, reproach. |
| 2 | -ō" kh | caroche, coach, poach. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: orach. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-h-o-r" | |
-1 letter: arch, arco, chao, char, hoar, hora, orca. | |
-2 letters: arc, car, cor, hao, oar, oca, ora, orc, rah, rho, roc. | |
-3 letters: ah, ar, ha, ho, oh, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-h-o-r" | |
+1 letter: anchor, archon, broach, carhop, caroch, chador, charro, choral, chorea, chroma, coprah, ochrea, orache, rancho. | |
+2 letters: abroach, anchors, archons, aurochs, camphor, carhops, caroach, caroche, carroch, chadors, chantor, chariot, charpoy, charros, chloral, cholera, choragi, chorale, chorals, chordal, choreal, choreas, chorial, chromas, coacher, cochair, coprahs, haricot, machzor, monarch, nomarch, ochreae, oraches, orchard, poacher, pochard, ranchos, roached, roaches, scholar, trochal, trochar. | |
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