Roach

roach
    n 1: a roll of hair brushed back from the forehead
    2: the butt of a marijuana cigarette
    3: street names for flunitrazepan [syn: {R-2}, {Mexican valium},
       {rophy}, {rope}, {roofy}, {roach}, {forget me drug},
       {circle}]
    4: any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic
       pests [syn: {cockroach}, {roach}]
    5: European freshwater food fish having a greenish back [syn:
       {roach}, {Rutilus rutilus}]
    v 1: comb (hair) into a roach
    2: cut the mane off (a horse)
    

Roach \Roach\, v. t.
   1. To cause to arch.
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   2. To cut off, as a horse's mane, so that the part left shall
      stand upright.
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Roach \Roach\, n. (Zool.)
   A cockroach.
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Roach \Roach\, n. [OE. rroche; cf. AS. reohha, D. rog, roch, G.
   roche, LG. ruche, Dan. rokke ray, Sw. rocka, and E. ray a
   fish.]
   1. (Zool.)
      (a) A European fresh-water fish of the Carp family
          ({Leuciscus rutilus}). It is silver-white, with a
          greenish back.
      (b) An American chub ({Semotilus bullaris}); the fallfish.
      (c) The redfin, or shiner.
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   2. (Naut.) A convex curve or arch cut in the edge of a sail
      to prevent chafing, or to secure a better fit.
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   {As sound as a roach} [roach perhaps being a corruption of a
      F. roche a rock], perfectly sound.
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roach
 vt.

   [Bell Labs] To destroy, esp. of a data structure. Hardware gets
   {toast}ed 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.
    

roach

   <jargon> A {Bell Labs} term meaning destroy, especially of a
   data structure.  Hardware gets {toast}ed or {fried}, software
   gets roached.

   [Why?]

   [{Jargon File}]

   (1999-02-08)
    

Roach, MO
  Zip code(s): 65787
    

106 Moby Thesaurus words for "roach":
      DET, DMT, LSD, Mary Jane, STP, THC, acid, afterglow, afterimage,
      antidepressant, ataractic, balance, butt, butt end, candle ends,
      cat flea, chaff, chigoe, cockroach, crab, debris, detritus,
      diethyltryptamine, dimethyltryptamine, dog flea, end, fag end,
      filings, flea, fossil, gage, ganja, grass, grayback, hallucinogen,
      hash, hashish, hay, hemp, holdover, husks, jigger, joint, kava,
      leavings, leftovers, louse, marijuana, mescal, mescal bean,
      mescal button, mescaline, mind-altering drug, mind-blowing drug,
      mind-expanding drug, mite, morning glory seeds, nit, odds and ends,
      offscourings, orts, parasite, parings, peyote, pot, psilocin,
      psilocybin, psychedelic, psychic energizer, psychoactive drug,
      psychochemical, psychotomimetic, rags, red bug, reefer, refuse,
      relics, remainder, remains, remnant, residue, residuum, rest,
      rubbish, ruins, rump, sand flea, sawdust, scourings, scraps,
      shadow, shavings, stick, straw, stubble, stump, survival,
      sweepings, tea, trace, tranquilizer, vermin, vestige, waste, weed,
      weevil