COCKROACHES Synonyms

• an irritating or obnoxious person

• any of various small animals or insects that are pests; e.g. cockroaches or rats

• insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings

• a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing

• jutting or overhanging

• be suspended over or hang over

• fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle

• beat with a beetle

• general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate

• a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine

• a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly

• insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis

• a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use

• annoy persistently

• tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information

• small air-breathing arthropod

• a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

• a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal

• any epidemic disease with a high death rate

• a persistently annoying person

• any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.

• a roll of hair brushed back from the forehead

• the butt of a marijuana cigarette

• street names for flunitrazepam

• any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests

• European freshwater food fish having a greenish back

• comb (hair) into a roach

• cut the mane off (a horse)