Roach or The Roach may refer to:

Animals

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 *

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 ** ''

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 *

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

Roach, Missouri Roach is an unincorporated community in southern Camden County, Missouri, United States. It is located north of U.S. Route 54 on Missouri Route AA, approximately five miles west of Camdenton and 2.5 miles west of the Niangua River arm of the La ...

, an unincorporated community * Roach, Nevada, a ghost town * Roach, West Virginia, an unincorporated community *

Roach River (Maine) The Roach River is a river in Piscataquis County, Maine. From the outlet of Third Roach Pond () in Shawtown (Maine Township A, Range 12, WELS), the river runs west, through a chain of ponds.U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrograp ...

, a river in Piscataquis County *

Roach River (Virginia) The Roach River is an U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed April 1, 2011 tributary of the North Fork Rivanna River in the U.S. state of Virginia. It is part of the James River ...

, a tributary of the North Fork Rivanna River *

River Roach The River Roach is a river that flows entirely through the England, English county of Essex. It is one of four main streams that originate in the Rayleigh Hills to the west, and flow east. They then flow towards the centre of the Rochford Basin ...

, Essex, England * Roach, former name of the Rural Municipality of Leroy No. 339, Saskatchewan, Canada

People

* Roach (surname), a list of people who bear the last name Roach *

Roach (rapper) Roach Gigz or Roach, is an American rapper and hyphy hip hop artist from the San Francisco Bay Area. Gigz released his first independent album in 2012, entitled ''Bugged Out''. He runs his own label, Goomba Records. Career Early career While ...

(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 ...

'' * Gary "Roach" Sanderson, a playable character in '' Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2'' *

Roach Stewart Roach Sidney Stewart (January 28, 1881 – March 16, 1948) was a college football player and attorney. A native of Lancaster, South Carolina, he was the town's mayor from 1918 to 1922. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, w ...

(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 ...

Law Roach Lawrence Roach is an American fashion stylist, best-known for his work with artists such as Zendaya, Céline Dion, and Anya Taylor-Joy. Roach served as a primary judge on the Max competition series '' Legendary'' (2020–2022). He announced his ...

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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 *

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 *

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 *

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 * Roach Stone, a type of Portland stone with many shell fragments within the stone * ''

Roach v Electoral Commissioner ''Roach v Electoral Commissioner''Judgement summary
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'', a landmark 2007 High Court of Australia case * "

The Roach (The Chronic Outro) ''The Chronic'' is the debut studio album by American rapper and producer Dr. Dre. It was released on December 15, 1992, by his record label Death Row Records along with Interscope Records and distributed by Priority Records. The recording sess ...

", track on Dr Dre's 1992 album ''The Chronic'' * "The Roach" or "

The Giant Cockroach The Giant Cockroach or The Roach (as translated by Miriam Morton, 1958) or Cock-The-Roach (as translated by Tom Botting, 1981), also popularly known by its Russian name Tarakanishche (), is a popular Russian children's fairy tale poem written by ...

", 1923 Russian children's poem by Korney Chukovsky

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