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roach

1 9.9

A hairstyle where the front hair is brushed back from the forehead

noun
/roʊtʃ/

: tupé

For the festival, she styled her hair into a traditional roach, giving her a striking appearance.

Look at white people, we got Roache, we got a Roach hair.

Examples

At Carnegie, Kiowa Gourd Dancers often wear the formal attire of the Straight Dance outfit, complete with hair roach, buckskin tab leggings, and other dance accoutrements.

Academic text (1990)
Daimpega members also wore horsehair or porcupine hair roach headdresses, and the principal members wore owl feather headdresses.

Academic text (1994)
Look at white people, we got Roache, we got a Roach hair.

The 85 South Comedy Show
The dancer's elaborate costume featured a beautiful roach that flowed elegantly with his movements.
He admired the unique roach hairstyle worn by the performers at the cultural celebration.

Synonyms

brushback

vsroach

7.2

A hairstyle with hair combed back away from the face and forehead

allows brushing or rolling the front backward from the forehead

Compounds

roach coach

Slang

1 9.3

A truck that sells cheap fast food

roach clip

NSFW

1 9.9

A small metal tool that holds the end of a marijuana cigarette so you do not burn your fingers

roach holder

NSFW

9.9

A small metal tool like tweezers that holds the end of a joint so you do not burn your fingers

oriental roach

Specialized

7.9

A large dark brown cockroach from Asia now found in many places

How Extreme

mohawk

7 6.7

pompadour

4 8.9

roach

1 9.9

crew cut

7 3.0

Surface Forms

roach singular

roaches plural

Etymology

The word roach for a hairstyle means hair brushed or rolled back into a small crest, and a helpful way to remember it is to picture a little ridge or 'brush' of hair standing up at the front.