roach
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- noun
- /roʊtʃ/
:
cucaracha
- I pictured ravenous, gigantic roaches nearly the size of my hand scampering all over the room.
- infested with roaches
- a roach infestation
- kill roaches
Use this to kill roaches and other bugs.
- Use this to kill roaches and other bugs.
- To top it off, the apartment has roaches and mice.
- But it's some people find roaches, like, not threatening, which is wild to me.
- So it was six of us living in a one bedroom, Roach infested.
- There's is it Selma Selma's the road that runs like one block below and it is covered in roaches at night, like like walking through the autumn leaves.
- There's another part where roaches and spiders are crawling all over a character, and you're just like, yeah, but then you keep on reading.
- But yes, he was external like like roaches, rats and so forth.
- And I think we left off with the story of the roaches.
Examples
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I listened for the roaches in the other room, but I didn't hear anything.
Fiction book (2002) -
To top it off, the apartment has roaches and mice.
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Did you see a roach here?
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I have had enough of this roach motel for one day.
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We had five roaches and by the way, they were all dead.
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There are roaches the size of dogs here.
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Use this to kill roaches and other bugs.
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You don't have to worry about a bug, a rat, or a roach as long as you live.
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I didn't really care about the roaches anymore, either, once she was gone.
Fiction book (2002) -
I found a big roach crawling across the kitchen floor this morning.
Synonyms
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A small insect like an ant or beetle
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A flat brown or black insect that comes out at night and lives in kitchens and houses
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A small animal, like an insect, that damages crops, food or farm animals
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A common brown insect that often lives in houses
A small light brown cockroach that often lives in kitchens and bathrooms in houses
A small light brown cockroach that lives in homes and is a pest
A small light brown cockroach that lives in houses
A large reddish-brown cockroach that often lives in warm, humid places and can fly short distances
A large dark brown cockroach from Asia now found in many places
Compounds
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A small metal tool that holds the end of a marijuana cigarette so you do not burn your fingers
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A small metal tool like tweezers that holds the end of a joint so you do not burn your fingers
How Unpleasant
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word roach for the insect is the short form of cockroach, a name that came into English from Spanish 'cucaracha', so the short word roach keeps the idea of that fast, flat household bug.