Meaning

12 senses
  1. Certain members of the fish family Cyprinidae, including:

    Any fish of species in the genus Rutilus, especially

  2. Any fish of species in the genus Rutilus, especially:

    A common roach (Rutilus rutilus).

    Plötze, Rotauge

    плотва́plotvá

    плі́ткаplítka, плітьplitʹ

  3. Certain members of the fish family Cyprinidae, including:

    Any member of the genus Hesperoleucus of California roaches.

  4. (US)Synonym of cockroach (“type of insect”).

  5. (derogatory, slang)Synonym of cockroach (“as a term of abuse”).

  6. (US, slang)The butt of a marijuana cigarette.

    the butt of a marijuana cigarette

  7. (US, slang)An entire marijuana cigarette, blunt, or joint.

  8. (UK, slang)The filter of a rolled cigarette or joint, made from card or paper (often of the cigarette paper packet itself).

  9. 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.

  10. A haircut or a similar-looking kind of headdress worn by some of the indigenous peoples of North America, often red.

  11. (UK, regional)Gritty or coarse rock; especially Portland stone or similar limestone.

  12. (UK, obsolete)A bed or stratum of some mineral.

Examples

27 sentences
  1. The roach is on the table.

    Тарган на столі. — deniko

  2. Sami's club has a roach infestation.

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  3. There's a roach on the table.

  4. Sami refused to step on the roach.

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  5. Sami found a roach in his drink.

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Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
Rutilus rutilus:
Русский
By meaning 1
Rutilus rutilus:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
Rutilus rutilus:

Origin

From Middle English roche, from Old French roche, from Middle Low German roche, ruche (“ra

From Middle English roche, from Old French roche, from Middle Low German roche, ruche (“ray (fish)”), from Old Saxon *rūh, possibly from Proto-Germanic *rūhaz (“rough”).

Back-formation from cockroach, as if it were a compound.

Apparently from extended or figurative use of roach (“Cyprinidae”), above. Compare the adjective roached (“styled so that the mane stands up from the neck”).

Variant of roche (“rock”). Attested since the seventeenth century.

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Forms

plural: roaches / roach
Singularroach
Pluralroaches / roach

regular

Synonyms

9 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

28 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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