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

Derived forms: roaching, roaches, roached

Type of: butt, chop off, coif, coiffure, comb, cut off, cyprinid, cyprinid fish, dictyopterous insect, do [informal], flunitrazepam, hair style, hairdo [informal], hairstyle, lop off, Rohypnol, stub

Part of: Blattaria, Blattodea, genus Rutilus, Rutilus, suborder Blattaria, suborder Blattodea

Encyclopedia: Roach, Paul