Roscoe, also spelled Rosco or Roscow, may refer to:
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Roscoe (name) Roscoe (also spelled Rosco, Roscow, and Ruscoe) is a Cornish name originating from the Old Norse words for "doe wood" or " roebuck copse". It is also an Americanized spelling of the French name Racicot, and possibly a corruption of Roscrowe.
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Places
United States
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Roscoe, California, now Sun Valley, Los Angeles
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Roscoe Township (disambiguation) Roscoe Township may refer to:
* Roscoe Township, Winnebago County, Illinois
* Roscoe Township, Davis County, Iowa
* Roscoe Township, Reno County, Kansas, in Reno County, Kansas
* Roscoe Township, Goodhue County, Minnesota
* Roscoe Township, St. Cla ...
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Roscoe, Georgia, an unincorporated community
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Roscoe, Illinois, a village
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Roscoe, Minnesota
Roscoe is a city in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 102 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. It is part of the St. Cloud, Minnesota, St. Cloud St. Cloud metropolitan area, Metropolitan Statistical Area. On ...
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Roscoe, Goodhue County, Minnesota, an unincorporated community
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Roscoe, Missouri, a village
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Roscoe, Montana, a settlement
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Roscoe, Nebraska, an unincorporated community and census-designated place
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Roscoe, New York
Roscoe is a Hamlet (New York), hamlet (and census-designated place) in Sullivan County, New York, Sullivan County, New York (state), New York, United States. The population was 497 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census.
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Roscoe, Pennsylvania, a borough
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Roscoe, South Dakota, a city
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Roscoe, Texas, a town
*Roscoe Village, a neighborhood in
North Center, Chicago
North Center is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago, Illinois, located in the city's North Side. North Center is bordered on the north by Montrose Avenue, on the south by Diversey Parkway (Chicago), Diversey Parkway, on the west by the Chic ...
, Illinois
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Roscoe Village (Coshocton, Ohio)
Roscoe Village is a restored Ohio and Erie Canal town located in Coshocton, Ohio, United States
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It i ...
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Roscoe Independent School District, Texas
Canada
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Roscoe River, Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, Canada
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Roscoe Glacier
Roscoe Glacier () is an Antarctic channel glacier, 12 nautical miles (22 km) long and 3 to 5 nautical miles (9 km) wide, debouching from a small valley onto the west portion of Shackleton Ice Shelf, midway between Cape Moyes and Junct ...
, Queen Mary Land, Antarctica
Other uses
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Roscoe's House of Chicken 'n Waffles
Roscoe's House of Chicken 'N Waffles is an American soul food restaurant chain that operates seven locations in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, Los Angeles metropolitan area. It was founded by Herb Hudson in 1975.
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, a popular California restaurant chain
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Roscoe Wind Farm
The Roscoe Wind Farm near Roscoe, Texas is one of the world's largest-capacity wind farms. With 627 wind turbines and a total installed capacity of 781.5 MW, owned and operated by RWE. At the time of its completion in 2009, it was the largest w ...
, Roscoe, Texas
* ROSCO, an acronym for British
railway rolling stock companies
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Roscoe (Los Angeles Metro station)
Roscoe station is a station on the G Line of the Los Angeles Metro Busway system located in Canoga Park in the western San Fernando Valley, it opened in June 2012. It is part of the Los Angeles Metro Busway system. The station is currently in ...
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''Roscoe'' (novel), by William Kennedy
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"Roscoe" (song), a song by Midlake
* "Roscoe" type
displacement lubricator, invented by James Roscoe
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Roscoe (software product)
Applied Data Research, Inc. (ADR), was a large software vendor from the 1960s until the mid-1980s. ADR is often described as "the first independent software vendor".
Founded in 1959, ADR was originally a contract development company. ADR eventua ...
, a software program used on mainframe computers
* A
pistol
A pistol is a type of handgun, characterised by a gun barrel, barrel with an integral chamber (firearms), chamber. The word "pistol" derives from the Middle French ''pistolet'' (), meaning a small gun or knife, and first appeared in the Englis ...
, particularly a
revolver
A revolver is a repeating handgun with at least one barrel and a revolving cylinder containing multiple chambers (each holding a single cartridge) for firing. Because most revolver models hold six cartridges before needing to be reloaded, ...
See also
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Rosko (disambiguation)
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