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roach ¹  (rch)

n. pl. roach or roach·es

1. A freshwater fish (Rutilus rutilus) of northern Europe.

2. Any of various similar or related fishes, such as some North American sunfishes.

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[Middle English roche, from Old French roce, roche.]

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roach ²  (rch)

n. pl. roach·es

1. The cockroach.

2. Slang The butt of a marijuana cigarette.

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roach ³  (rch)

n. pl. roach·es

1. A roll of hair brushed up from the forehead or temple.

2. A hairstyle especially among certain Native American peoples in which the head is shaved except for a strip from front to back across the top.

3. Nautical An outward curve in the leech of a fore-and-aft sail.

tr.v. roached, roach·ing, roach·es

1. To brush (hair) in a roach.

2. To shave (the mane of a horse) to a short bristle.

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[Origin unknown.]

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roach ¹

Noun

pl roaches or roach a European freshwater food fish [Old French roche]

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roach ²

Noun

Chiefly US & Canad a cockroach

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Noun	1.	roach - a roll of hair brushed back from the forehead coif, coiffure, hair style, hairdo, hairstyle - the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair)
	2.	roach - the butt of a marijuana cigarette stub, butt - the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)
	3.	roach - street names for flunitrazepan forget me drug, Mexican valium, R-2, roofy, rophy, rope, circle flunitrazepan, Rohypnol - a depressant and tranquilizer (trade name Rohypnol) often used in the commission of sexual assault; legally available in Europe and Mexico and Colombia
	4.	roach - any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests cockroach dictyopterous insect - cockroaches and mantids Blattaria, Blattodea, suborder Blattaria, suborder Blattodea - cockroaches; in some classifications considered an order Asiatic cockroach, blackbeetle, Blatta orientalis, oriental cockroach, oriental roach - dark brown cockroach originally from orient now nearly cosmopolitan in distribution American cockroach, Periplaneta americana - large reddish brown free-flying cockroach originally from southern United States but now widely distributed Australian cockroach, Periplaneta australasiae - widely distributed in warm countries Blattella germanica, Croton bug, crotonbug, German cockroach, water bug - small light-brown cockroach brought to United States from Europe; a common household pest giant cockroach - large tropical American cockroaches
	5.	roach - European freshwater food fish having a greenish back Rutilus rutilus cyprinid, cyprinid fish - soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales genus Rutilus, Rutilus - roaches
Verb	1.	roach - comb (hair) into a roach comb - straighten with a comb; "comb your hair"
	2.	roach - cut the mane off (a horse) chop off, lop off, cut off - remove by or as if by cutting; "cut off the ear"; "lop off the dead branch"