roach

Meaning

Noun

• Certain members of the fish family Cyprinidae, including:
• A cockroach.
• An extra curve of material added to the leech (aft edge) of a sail to increase the sail area.
• A kind of headdress worn by some of the indigenous peoples of North America.
• Marijuana; cannabis used as a drug.
• A butt of a marijuana cigarette.
• The filter of a rolled cigarette or joint, made from card or paper.
• A bed or stratum of some mineral.
• Gritty or coarse rock; especially Portland stone or similar limestone.

Origin

• , German Rochen ("ray (fish)").
• Back-formation from cockroach, as if it were a compound.
• Apparently from extended or figurative use of roach, above. Compare the adjective roached.
• Extended or jocular use of roach, above. Attested since the 1930s.
• Variant of roche. Attested since the seventeenth century.