roach

Plural: roach, roaches

Noun

• a roll of hair brushed back from the forehead
• the butt of a marijuana cigarette
• street names for flunitrazepan
• any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests
• European freshwater food fish having a greenish back
• Certain members of the fish family Cyprinidae, including:
• Any fish of species in the genus Rutilus, especially
• Certain members of the fish family Cyprinidae, including:
• Any fish of species in the genus Rutilus, especially:
• A common roach (Rutilus rutilus)
• Certain members of the fish family Cyprinidae, including:
• A California roach, of the monotypic genus Hesperoleucus
• A cockroach.
• The butt of a marijuana cigarette.
• An entire marijuana cigarette, blunt, or joint.
• The filter of a rolled cigarette or joint, made from card or paper.
• Sail material that forms a concave curve rather than straight leech (aft edge) of a sail to increase the sail area over that of a simple triangular sail.
• A haircut or a similar-looking kind of headdress worn by some of the indigenous peoples of North America, often red.
• A bed or stratum of some mineral.
• Gritty or coarse rock; especially Portland stone or similar limestone.

Verb

Verb Forms: roached, roaching, roaches

• To cause something, especially hair, to arch backward.
• comb (hair) into a roach
• cut the mane off (a horse)
• Synonym of roach out.
• To cut or shave off the mane of a horse so that the remaining hair stands up on the neck.
• To cut a person's hair so that it stands straight up.

Examples

• He tried to ROACH his letters into a bingo, but it didn’t quite fit.

Synonyms

circle, cockroach, forget me drug, Mexican valium, R-2, roofy, rope, rophy, Rutilus rutilus, roach out

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