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roach

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roach: see cockroach cockroach or roach, name applied to approximately 3,500 species of flat-bodied, oval insects forming the order Blattodea. Cockroaches have long antennae, long legs adapted to running, and a flat extension of the upper body wall that conceals the
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Common European sport fish (Rutilus rutilus) of the carp family (Cyprinidae), found in lakes and slow rivers. A high-backed, yellowish green fish with red eyes and reddish fins, the roach is 6–16 in. (15–40 cm) long and weighs up to 4.5 lbs (2 kg). It lives in small schools and eats plants, insects, and small animals. It is sometimes eaten or used as bait. In North America, other fishes are called roach, including the rudd, the golden shiner (both cyprinids), and several members of the sunfish family (Centrarchidae).

(jargon)roach - A Bell Labs term meaning destroy, especially of a data structure. Hardware gets toasted or fried, software gets roached.
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To suppose that Wakem had the same sort of inveterate hatred toward Tulliver that Tulliver had toward him would be like supposing that a pike and a roach can look at each other from a similar point of view.
The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context
The river abounds in pike, roach, dace, gudgeon, and eels, just here; and you can sit and fish for them all day.
Three Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing Of The Dog) by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
The river Avon at Rugby is a slow and not very clear stream, in which chub, dace, roach, and other coarse fish are (or were) plentiful enough, together with a fair sprinkling of small jack, but no fish worth sixpence either for sport or food.
Tom Brown's Schooldays by Hughes, Thomas View in context
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