roach : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: roach	by the DICT Development Group
7 results for roach
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
roach n a roll of hair brushed back from the forehead the butt of a marijuana cigarette street names for flunitrazepan Synonym(s): R-2, Mexican valium, rophy, rope, roofy, roach, forget me drug, circle any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests Synonym(s): cockroach, roach European freshwater food fish having a greenish back Synonym(s): roach, Rutilus rutilus v comb (hair) into a roach cut the mane off (a horse)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Roach \Roach\, n. [OE. rroche; cf. AS. reohha, D. rog, roch, G. roche, LG. ruche, Dan. rokke ray, Sw. rocka, and E. ray a fish.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A European fresh-water fish of the Carp family ({Leuciscus rutilus}). It is silver-white, with a greenish back. (b) An American chub ({Semotilus bullaris}); the fallfish. (c) The redfin, or shiner. 2. (Naut.) A convex curve or arch cut in the edge of a sail to prevent chafing, or to secure a better fit. {As sound as a roach} [roach perhaps being a corruption of a F. roche a rock], perfectly sound.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Roach \Roach\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A cockroach.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Roach \Roach\, v. t. 1. To cause to arch. 2. To cut off, as a horse's mane, so that the part left shall stand upright.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Roach, MO Zip code(s): 65787
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
roach vt. [Bell Labs] To destroy, esp. of a data structure. Hardware gets {toast}ed or {fried}, software gets roached.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
roach A {Bell Labs} term meaning destroy, especially of a data structure. Hardware gets {toast}ed or {fried}, software gets roached. [Why?] [{Jargon File}] (1999-02-08)