roach

English

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Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ɹəʊtʃ/
• (US) IPA: /ɹoʊtʃ/
• Rhymes: -əʊtʃ

Noun

roach (plural roaches)

1. A small freshwater fish in the carp family (Cyprinidae), Rutilus rutilus.
2. (US) a cockroach.
3. (US, slang, smoking) A butt of a marijuana cigarette.
4. (UK, slang, smoking) The filter of a rolled cigarette or joint, made from card or paper.
5. (nautical) An extra curve of material added to the leech edge of a sail to increase the sail area.

Translations

Rutilus rutilus

• Czech: plotice (cs) f
• Estonian: särg (et)
• Finnish: särki (fi)
• French: gardon (fr) m
• German: Plötze (de) f, Rotauge (de) n
• Hungarian: bodorka (hu)
• Luxembourgish: Routa (lb) n

• Macedonian: црвеноперка (mk) (crvenopérka) f
• Polish: płoć (pl) f
• Russian: плотва (ru) (plotvá) f
• Serbo-Croatian: bodorka (sh) f
• Spanish: leucisco (es) m
• Swedish: mört (sv) c

slang: butt of a marijuana cigarette

• French: cul (fr) m, cul de joint (fr) m

• Macedonian: фас (mk) (fas) m

US: cockroach — see cockroach

nautical: curve in the bottom of a sail

• Italian: allunamento (it) m

Anagrams

• achor, orach