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Roach

noun

A roll of hair brushed back from the forehead.

The butt of a marijuana cigarette.

Street names for flunitrazepan. Synonyms: circle, forget me drug, Mexican valium, R-2, roofy, rope, rophy.

Any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests. Synonym: cockroach.

European freshwater food fish having a greenish back. Synonym: Rutilus rutilus.

verb

Comb (hair) into a roach.

Cut the mane off (a horse).

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"Roach" Quotes from Famous Books

... Mrs. Woodward to know that Norman did not regard them all as strangers; and that was all. Linda said it was very sad; and Gertrude said, not to her mother but to Alaric, that it was heartless. Captain Cuttwater predicted that he would soon come round, and be as sound as a roach again in six months' time. Alaric said nothing; but he went on with his wooing, and this he did so successfully, as to make Gertrude painfully alive to what would have been, in her eyes, the inferiority of her lot, had she unfortunately allowed ...

— The Three Clerks • Anthony Trollope

... half hours. When debts, funeral and testamentary expenses had been deducted from his father's bank balance, the sum of twenty-three pounds nine shillings was all that was left, and this, with the threat of royalties from one or two books, represented the baby's fortune. Jonathan Roach, bachelor, had risen to the occasion and taken ...

— Anthony Lyveden • Dornford Yates

... if he'd have a good dinner if I stayed and ate it with him, and the old fellow said he would," Neale continued. "And Mrs. Judy Roach—the widow woman who does the extra cleaning for him—will come to ...

— The Corner House Girls at School • Grace Brooks Hill

... foliis polos-viscid is pontiffs aequalibus pianissimos, Roach inferno angsts, calycibus hurts. Ait. Kew. v. 3. ...

— The Botanical Magazine Vol. 7 - or, Flower-Garden Displayed • William Curtis

... of borrowing the stuffed wild-cat that is in the bar at the "Ship," but we decided that our decorations must be very quiet—and the wild-cat, even in its stuffed state, was anything but; so we borrowed a stuffed roach in a glass box and stood it on the chest of drawers. It looked very calm. Sea-shells are quiet things when they are vacant, and Mrs. Beale let us have the four ...

— New Treasure Seekers - or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune • E. (Edith) Nesbit

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