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roach
noun- a cockroach AUSTRALIA
- The roaches are that big in some parts of Australia they help with the washing up. — Barry Humphries, The Traveller’s Tool, p. 80, 1985
- the butt of a marijuana cigarette US, 1938
The variant “roche” also exists. - — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 16, 1945
- You don’t have to pass a roach to a viper, he’ll take it right out of your hand and go to puffin’ on it not even thinkin’ about who had it in his chops before. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 214, 1946
- She doubled the empty match cover over backward and put the butt of the cigarette up in the fold to make a crutch, and she brought the cardboard up to her lips and took three deep final drags off the short roach. — Thurston Scott, Cure it with Honey, p. 69, 1951
- Satchmo making a roach of a bomber joint in two mighty drags. — Neal Cassady, Neal Cassady Collected Letters 1944–1967, p. 299, 20 June 1951: Letter to Jack Kerouac
- Everyone who had remained was gathered around the table in a laconic group, rolling new cigarettes out of the collected roaches. — John Clellon Holmes, Go, p. 91, 1952
- She finished the marijuana roach and fell to her back on the bed[.] — George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, p. 118, 1952
- Save me the roach, man. — Willard Motley, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 90, 1958
- Here, you finish the roach. I don’t like roaches, they catch me in the throat. — Bernard Wolfe, The Magic of Their Singing, p. 77, 1961
- A droopy-eyed Negro hands me a tiny joint, offers what is hardly a roach now: “Turn on?” — John Rechy, City of Night, p. 185, 1963
- [A]nd then the stick was gone, burnt to a little bit of a roach. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 58, 1967
- Don’t run, the time approaches / Hotels and midnight coaches / Be sure to hide the roaches. — Graham Nash, Pre-Road Downs, 1968
- The bomber in her hand was now a “roach.” — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 182, 1969
- Charlotte finishes the roach and puts away her paraphernalia. — Darryl Ponicsan, The Last Detail, p. 100, 1970
- Then D.R. took the last drag on the joint, ate the roach as the first hors d’oeuvre of the evening, then set out with his lady to call on the Lone Outdoorsman. — Gurney Norman, Divine Right’s Trip (Last Whole Earth Catalog), p. 45, 1971
- Twist up a big bomb of this serious dope / Smoke it down to tha dub or roach tip / So much damn resin it’s startin’ to drip — Tone Loc, Cheeba Cheeba, 1989
- [T]here was still a glimmer of life in the spliff as it made its way down to the cigarette-packet roach. — Donald Gorgon, Cop Killer, p. 36, 1994
- Vita snuffed out her jay on white tree bark and stuck the roach in the pocket of her jeans, the jeans cut off at the crotch. — Elmore Leonard, Be Cool, p. 51, 1999
- a still-lit and smokeable cigarette end UK
From the previous sense. - — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 98, 1996
- Rohypnol (flunitrazepam), popularly known as the “date-rape drug” US
From the manufacturer, Hoffman-La Roche. The variant “roachie” also exists. - On the street the drug has many nicknames; teenagers know it as rope, ribs, or roaches. — Texas Monthly, p. 88, September 1995
- Among the New Words — American Speech, p. 193, Summer 1997
- a police officer US
A disliked insect found nearly everywhere. - — Marlena Kay Nelson, Rookies to Roaches, p. 5, 1963
- an unpopular girl US
- — Time Magazine, p. 46, 24 August 1959
- — American Speech, p. 154, May 1959: “Gator (University of Florida) slang”
- in new car sales, a bad credit risk US, 1989
- — Doctor’s Review, August 1989
- — Anna Scotti and Paul Young, Buzzwords, p. 41, 1997
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