Adjective
Without a roach (part of a sail).
Usage- not-comparable
Without cockroaches.
Usage- US usage
- not-comparable
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There is no end of the headings you can devise using “roach” in each, thus: The roach dies. Doom of roaches. Roaches no more. No roaches left. The end of roaches. Who has roaches. Roachless houses. Not one roach. Roaches will go. No roach escapes.
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Hence most of us, learning for the first time of DDT as a new miracle insect killer, think rather of summer days free of flies and summer evenings without mosquitoes, roachless houses and flealess dogs, than of a world without malaria or typhus.
For me, in the roachless home of those Nashville suburbs, it was irrelevant that in the past twenty years cockroaches have been identified as a leading cause of asthma, but for a boy growing up in a housing project, they may be why he has the disease, and they are almost certainly a contributing factor to the onset of his attacks.