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roach
vt. [Bell Labs] To destroy, esp. of a data structure. Hardware gets toast ed or fried , software gets roached. Probably derived from '70s and '80s drug slang; marijuana smokers used roach to refer to the unsmokable remnant of a joint, and to roach a joint was therefore to destroy it.