Usually means: Insect known for resilience, ubiquity.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word roach:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. roach: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. roach: Merriam-Webster
  3. roach, roach, roach: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. roach, roach, roach: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. roach: Collins English Dictionary
  6. roach: Vocabulary.com
  7. Roach, roach: Wordnik
  8. roach: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Roach, roach: Wiktionary
  10. roach: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. roach: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. roach: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. roach: Dictionary.com
  14. roach (1), roach (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. roach: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Roach (cannabis culture), Roach (headdress), Roach (marijuana), Roach (rapper), Roach (smoking), Roach (surname), Roach, The Roach: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Roach: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. roach: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. roach: Rhymezone
  20. Roach: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. roach: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Roach: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. roach: FreeDictionary.org
  24. roach: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  25. roach: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. Roach: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. roach: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Roach (disambiguation), roach: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. roach: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Roach (disambiguation), roach: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. roach: A Word A Day

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Roach (offensive), Roach (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. roach, roach: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. roach: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. Roach: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  5. roach: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Roach: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Certain members of the fish family Cyprinidae, including:
noun:  Any fish of species in the genus Rutilus, especially:
noun:  A common roach (Rutilus rutilus)
noun:  A California roach, of the monotypic genus Hesperoleucus
noun:  (US) A cockroach.
noun:  (US, slang, smoking) The butt of a marijuana cigarette.
noun:  (US, slang, smoking) An entire marijuana cigarette, blunt, or joint.
noun:  (UK, slang, smoking) The filter of a rolled cigarette or joint, made from card or paper.
noun:  (nautical) 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.
noun:  A haircut or a similar-looking kind of headdress worn by some of the indigenous peoples of North America, often red.
verb:  (transitive) To cut or shave off the mane of a horse so that the remaining hair stands up on the neck.
verb:  (transitive, by extension) To cut a person's hair so that it stands straight up.
noun:  (UK, obsolete, mining) A bed or stratum of some mineral.
noun:  (UK, regional) Gritty or coarse rock; especially Portland stone or similar limestone.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A surname from Anglo-Norman [in turn from Norman, in turn from Old French]
noun:  A surname from placenames
noun:  A placename
noun:  A rivers in the United Kingdom
noun:  The River Roach, a river in Essex, England, which is a stream before becoming a tidal river and joining the River Crouch.
noun:  A places and rivers in the United States
noun:  A short river in Piscataquis County, Maine, which flows into Moosehead Lake.
noun:  A short river in Virginia, a tributary of the Rivanna River.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Camden County, Missouri.
noun:  A ghost town in Clark County, Nevada.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Cabell County, West Virginia.
noun:  Alternative spelling of Roch, the River Roch or Roach, A river in Greater Manchester, England. Roach appears to be mainly an older spelling. [A river in Greater Manchester, England, which joins the River Irwell.]

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