roach : Idioms & Phrases

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As sound as a roach

  • roach perhaps being a corruption of a F. roche a rock, perfectly sound.
Webster 1913

oriental roach

  • noun dark brown cockroach originally from orient now nearly cosmopolitan in distribution
    Asiatic cockroach; blackbeetle; oriental cockroach; Blatta orientalis.
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roach clip

  • noun metal tweezers used by marijuana smokers to hold a roach
    roach clip.
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roach holder

  • noun metal tweezers used by marijuana smokers to hold a roach
    roach clip.
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roach-backed

Roach"-backed` adjective
Definitions
  1. Having a back like that of roach; -- said of a horse whose back a convex instead of a concave curve.
Webster 1913