roach
roach Lexical Profile
roach Game Scores & Validity
• noun
North American A scavenging insect belonging to the order Blattodea, commonly known as a cockroach, frequently considered a household pest.
"We had to call an exterminator after noticing a roach scurrying behind the kitchen counter."
The end of a marijuana cigarette that remains after most of it has been smoked.
"He flicked the extinguished roach into the overflowing ashtray."
A small freshwater fish (Rutilus rutilus) of the carp family, native to most of Europe and western Asia, popular among sport anglers.
"The angler spent a quiet afternoon catching roach and bream in the village canal."
• Rhymes for roach
Word Origin & Etymology
The insect sense is a mid-19th-century American shortening of 'cockroach', derived from the Spanish 'cucaracha'. The fish sense stems from Old French 'roche', which is of Germanic origin. The slang term for a marijuana cigarette butt emerged in the 1930s, supposedly due to its visual resemblance to the insect.
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