cockroach
IPA: kˈɑkroʊtʃ
noun
- A black or brown straight-winged insect of the order Blattodea.
- (slang, offensive) A person or a member of a group of people regarded as undesirable and rapidly procreating.
- (offensive, slang, ethnic slur, Rwanda) A Tutsi.
- (Australia, slang, derogatory, humorous) A person from New South Wales.
- (Australia, slang, obsolete) A hard lump of brown sugar.
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Examples of "cockroach" in Sentences
- The song tells about fear of cockroaches.
- The Dubia cockroach is omnivorous and a scavenger.
- He's the cockroach infestation of the hip hop world.
- The cockroach has been there since the first chapter.
- The tortoise is way more important than the cockroach.
- The brothers discover that the bully is afraid of cockroaches.
- The leaves of the plant have a repellent effect on cockroaches.
- Commas are as slippery as eels and as ineradicable as cockroaches.
- In other sections of the cartoon, the cockroach speaks in Persian.
- Like the others, she also had the flea, housefly, seagull, and cockroach.