Roach or The Roach may refer to:
Animals
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Cockroach
Cockroaches (or roaches) are insects belonging to the Order (biology), order Blattodea (Blattaria). About 30 cockroach species out of 4,600 are associated with human habitats. Some species are well-known Pest (organism), pests.
Modern cockro ...
, various insect species of the order Blattodea
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Common roach
The roach, or rutilus roach (''Rutilus rutilus''), also known as the common roach, is a fresh- and brackish-water fish of the family Cyprinidae, native to most of Europe and western Asia. Fish called roach can be any species of the genera ''Rut ...
(''Rutilus rutilus''), a fresh and brackish water fish of the family Cyprinidae
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Rutilus
''Rutilus'', commonly known as roaches, is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, Eurasian minnows and related fishes. This genus is a widely distributed lineage of leuciscids and r ...
'' or roaches, a genus of fishes
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California roach
The California roach (previously ''Lavinia/Hesperoleucus symmetricus'') is a species of freshwater Actinopterygii, ray-finned fish belonging to the Family (biology), family Leuciscidae, which includes the daces, chubs, Phoxinus, Eurasian minnows ...
(''Hesperoleucus symmetricus''), a cyprinid fish native to western North America
Places
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Roach, Missouri, an unincorporated community
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Roach, Nevada, a ghost town
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Roach, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
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Roach River (Maine), a river in Piscataquis County
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Roach River (Virginia), a tributary of the North Fork Rivanna River
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River Roach, Essex, England
* Roach, former name of the
Rural Municipality of Leroy No. 339, Saskatchewan, Canada
People
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Roach (surname), a list of people who bear the last name Roach
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Roach (rapper) (born 1988), American rapper and hip-hop artist
* Roach, fictional character in the animated series ''
Supernoobs
''Supernoobs'' is a Canadian animated comedy television series produced by DHX Media, now known as WildBrain, for Cartoon Network and Teletoon. It was created by Scott Fellows, who also created ''Johnny Test'', '' Ned's Declassified School S ...
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* Gary "Roach" Sanderson, a playable character in ''
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2''
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Roach Stewart (1881–1948), college football player and attorney
*Roach, a fictional character from the 1991 crime-action film,
Point Break
''Point Break'' is a 1991 American action film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by W. Peter Iliff. It stars Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Lori Petty and Gary Busey. The film's title refers to the surfing term " point break", where a ...
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Law Roach
Other
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Zerg
The Zerg are a fictional race of insectoid aliens obsessed with assimilating other races into their swarm in pursuit of genetic perfection, and the overriding antagonists for much of the ''StarCraft'' franchise. Unlike the fictional universe's ...
unit in StarCraft 2
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Roach (headdress)
Porcupine hair roaches are a traditional male headdress of a number of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Native American tribes in what is now New England, the Great Lakes and Missouri River regions, including the Potawatomi who lived where Chi ...
, traditional Native American headdress usually of porcupine hair
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Roach (sail)
Sail components include the features that define a sail's shape and function, plus its constituent parts from which it is manufactured. A sail may be classified in a variety of ways, including by its orientation to the vessel (e.g. ''fore-and-a ...
, an arc of extra material on the leech of a sail
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Roach (smoking) A roach is the remains of a Joint (cannabis), joint or Blunt (marijuana cigar), blunt after most of it has been smoked. Most roaches are disposed of immediately after smoking a joint; however, some users will retain the roach for use at a later date ...
, the butt of a marijuana cigarette
* Roaching, a way of styling the
mane of a horse
* Roach back, a type of conformation of the
back of a horse
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Roach Stone, a type of Portland stone with many shell fragments within the stone
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'', a landmark 2007 High Court of Australia case
* "
The Roach (The Chronic Outro)", track on Dr Dre's 1992 album ''The Chronic''
* "The Roach" or "
The Giant Cockroach", 1923 Russian children's poem by Korney Chukovsky
See also
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Roaches (disambiguation)
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Roache, the surname of several actors
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Dace
A dace is a small fish that can be one of many different species. The unmodified name is usually a reference to the common dace (''Leuciscus leuciscus''). This, like most fish called "daces", belongs to the family Leuciscidae, mostly in subfami ...
, several species of small fish
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Shiner (fish) Shiner is a common name used in North America for any of several kinds of small, usually silvery fish, in particular a number of cyprinids, but also e.g. the shiner perch (''Cymatogaster aggregata'').
Cyprinid shiners are:
* Eastern shiners, genus ...
, several species of small fish
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