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roach [n]
 
1)the butt of a marijuana cigarette
    Synonyms :
    See Also: butt 
 
2)street names for flunitrazepan
    Synonyms :circle forget_me_drug mexican_valium r-2 roofy rope rophy 
    See Also: flunitrazepan 
 
3)any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests
    Synonyms :cockroach 
    See Also: dictyopterous_insect  blattaria  asiatic_cockroach  american_cockroach  australian_cockroach  blattella_germanica  giant_cockroach 
 
4)European freshwater food fish having a greenish back
    Synonyms :rutilus_rutilus 
    See Also: cyprinid  genus_rutilus 
 

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

A Bell Labs term meaning destroy, especially of a data structure. Hardware gets toasted or fried, software gets roached.

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(1999-02-08)



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