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US
/ˈɹoʊtʃ/
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[ UK /ɹˈəʊtʃ/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈəʊtʃ/ ]
NOUN
- European freshwater food fish having a greenish back
- a roll of hair brushed back from the forehead
- street names for flunitrazepan
- any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests
- the butt of a marijuana cigarette
VERB
- cut the mane off (a horse)
- comb (hair) into a roach
How To Use roach In A Sentence
- But at lunch on the first day we were approached by the helpful Hotel Manager Henri and offered a swap to an overwater bungalow.
- There is a great deal of feeling and perhaps some bitterness, but do you not all agree with me that it is quite possible, since there is a fashion of armament in Europe, and since there has been no withdrawal on the part of the Admiralty from the stand taken by the First Lord some months ago, to have the entire Canadian people approach this situation in a calm and in an impartial manner? Canada and the Empire
- On his first day there he approached a couple of elegant young toffs strolling around the campus. Times, Sunday Times
- Ballymaloe take a more seasonal approach to things by using redcurrant rather than lemon juice, made by simmering a couple of punnets of the astringent little fruits with water, and then pushing them through a sieve. How to make perfect strawberry jam
- If this approach has a drawback, it is that the zealous pursuit of the founding principle—disinterring the buried life, stamped under the sod by conniving male partners—sometimes obscures the fact that not a great deal gets added to the wider cultural landscape it is bent on illuminating. A Far From Model Marriage
- There is probably room for a touch more earthiness, a little more hardness in her approach to a Don José who is always going to be putty in her hands.
- There are two main approaches: one is a synthetic plug the same shape as a cork that can be placed in the top of the bottle in the same way as a cork and removed with a corkscrew, so preserving the ritual of opening a bottle of wine.
- This approach can also help identify where non-value-added steps exist in the care delivery process and where bottlenecks occur.
- But the avant-garde has found support for its imaginative approach from such sciences as biology.
- Their preferences ultimately shaped the place of worship that Warren built, and the result of that consumer-driven approach to creating Saddleback is a deliberately contemporary, highly professionalized operation with a carefully orchestrated feel-good atmosphere. American Grace