roach — Dicionário de inglês

Substantivo

1. Certain members of the fish family Cyprinidae, including: Any fish of species in the genus Rutilus, especially

2. Certain members of the fish family Cyprinidae, including: Any fish of species in the genus Rutilus, especially: A common roach (Rutilus rutilus).

3. Certain members of the fish family Cyprinidae, including: Any member of the genus Hesperoleucus of California roaches.

Substantivo

1. Synonym of cockroach (“type of insect”).

   Uso

   • uso nos Estados Unidos

2. Synonym of cockroach (“as a term of abuse”).

   Uso

   • pejorativo
   • gíria

3. The butt of a marijuana cigarette.

   Uso

   • uso nos Estados Unidos
   • gíria

4. An entire marijuana cigarette, blunt, or joint.

   Uso

   • uso nos Estados Unidos
   • gíria

   Exemplos

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   In his half hour of free time between brooms it was Willie's custom to smoke his lunch in an alleyway. He'd take just half a roach, only enough to make him feel a new day was starting, no more no less.

5. The filter of a rolled cigarette or joint, made from card or paper (often of the cigarette paper packet itself).

   Uso

   • uso britânico
   • gíria

   Exemplos

   Last toke is the yellowing fabric of the roach, containing the stuff that is less than tobacco.

Verbo

1. Synonym of roach out.

   Exemplos

   Yamato roached on his best friend.

   I stand by it being a horrible call, but Yamdef getting called out for roaching, there’s definitely some irony going on there.

Substantivo

1. 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.

2. A haircut or a similar-looking kind of headdress worn by some of the indigenous peoples of North America, often red.

Verbo

1. To cut or shave off the mane of a horse so that the remaining hair stands up on the neck.

   Uso

   • transitivo

2. To cut a person's hair so that it stands straight up.

   Uso

   • broadly
   • transitivo

Substantivo

1. A bed or stratum of some mineral.

   Uso

   • uso britânico
   • obsoleto

   Exemplos

   After long Working of this Coal, it was found upon the rising Grounds, that there lay another Roach of Coal, at the Depth of 14 Yards under it

2. Gritty or coarse rock; especially Portland stone or similar limestone.

   Uso

   • uso britânico
   • regional

   Exemplos

   The roach, both of the top and bottom beds, is always imperceptibly incorporated with the freestone, which is invariable situated beneath it.

Substantivo

1. a roll of hair brushed back from the forehead

   Termos mais gerais

   hairdohairstylehair stylecoiffurecoif

2. the butt of a marijuana cigarette

   Termos mais gerais

   buttstub

3. street names for flunitrazepam

   Sinônimos

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   Termos mais gerais

   flunitrazepamRohypnol

4. any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests

   Sinônimos

   cockroach

   Termos mais gerais

   dictyopterous insect

5. European freshwater food fish having a greenish back

   Sinônimos

   Rutilus rutilus

   Termos mais gerais

   cyprinidcyprinid fish

Verbo

1. comb (hair) into a roach

   Termos mais gerais

   comb

2. cut the mane off (a horse)

   Termos mais gerais

   cut offchop offlop off