Roach

Roach or The Roach may refer to:

Animals

• Cockroach, various insect species of the order Blattodea
• Common roach (Rutilus rutilus), a fresh and brackish water fish of the family Cyprinidae
  • Rutilus or roaches, a genus of fishes
  • Members of several other leuciscid genera, including:
    • Leucos , from southern Europe
    • Sarmarutilus , from southern Europe
    • Hesperoleucus , from western North America

Places

• Roach, Missouri, an unincorporated community
• Roach, Nevada, a ghost town
• Roach, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
• Roach River (Maine), a river in Piscataquis County
• Roach River (Virginia), a tributary of the North Fork Rivanna River
• River Roach, 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) (born 1988), American rapper and hip-hop artist
• Roach, fictional character in the animated series Supernoobs
• Gary "Roach" Sanderson, a playable character in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
• Roach Stewart (1881–1948), college football player and attorney
• Roach, a fictional character from the 1991 crime-action film, Point Break
• Law Roach

Other

• A Zerg unit in StarCraft 2
• Roach (headdress), traditional Native American headdress usually of porcupine hair
• Roach (sail), an arc of extra material on the leech of a sail
• Roach (smoking), 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 , 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
• Papa Roach, American rock band

See also

• Roaches (disambiguation)
• Roache, the surname of several actors
• Dace, several species of small fish
• Shiner (fish), several species of small fish
• All pages with titles containing Roach