Definitions for roaches

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Spelling: [rohch]

IPA: /roʊtʃ/

Roaches is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 277 anagrams from letters in roaches (acehors).

Definitions for roaches

noun

1. a cockroach.
2. Slang. the butt of a marijuana cigarette.
3. a European freshwater fish, Rutilus rutilus, of the carp family.
4. any of various similar fishes, as the golden shiner.
5. a freshwater sunfish of the genus Lepomis, found in eastern North America.
6. Nautical. the upward curve at the foot of a square sail. (loosely) a convexity given to any of the edges of a sail; round.
7. hair combed up from the forehead or temples in a roll or high curve.
8. Maxwell ("Max") 1924–2007, U.S. jazz drummer and bandleader.

verb (used with object)

1. to clip or cut off (the mane of a horse); hog.
2. to comb (hair) into a roach.

Origin of roaches

1830-40, Americanism; 1940-45, Americanism for def 2; short form of cockroach

Examples for roaches

Besides she had got it into her head that Leonora, who was as sound as a roach, was consumptive.

“Sure,” the one guy says, and passes over a roach (the end of a joint).

You are what you eat,” roach writes, “but more than that, you are how you eat.

Come, come, roach, don't be angry; it's all past and over now; the fellow did it for the best.

Will crunchy parents be running to the pet stores for roach farms?

One morning after meditation, roach sought me out amidst commotion in the room.

A roach snapped idly at him as he floundered past the shoal.

Structurally, said Dr. Boreas of Leamington, structurally you are as sound as a roach.

Each bowed his or her head, and roach responded in turn with a warm, toothy smile.

Not a bit of it, roach; Mark says the fellow mistook you for Cassidy.