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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>roach</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../R.html" title="R"/><link rel="previous" href="RL.html" title="RL"/><link rel="next" href="robocanceller.html" title="robocanceller"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">roach</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="RL.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">R</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="robocanceller.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="roach"/><dt xmlns="" id="roach"><b>roach</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vt.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Bell Labs] To destroy, esp. of a data structure. Hardware gets
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<a href="../T/toast.html"><i class="glossterm">toast</i></a>ed or <a href="../F/fried.html"><i class="glossterm">fried</i></a>, software
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gets roached. Probably derived from '70s and '80s drug slang; marijuana
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smokers used ‘roach’ to refer to the unsmokable remnant of a
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joint, and to ‘roach’ a joint was therefore to destroy
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