cockroach , , also: roach AmE informal

A cockroach can live for two weeks without a head.

Within two weeks most of the cockroaches had moved to the still side.

We could never again look at a cockroach in quite the same way.

However, during certain times of the year, these cockroaches may move inside a house from outside.

But the thing did what he had never known a cockroach to do.

Local officials said the school has had a cockroach problem for more than a year and a half.

In fact, the cockroach has been on Earth at least 250 million years.

Perhaps there was a reason why they were called "cockroaches."

Cockroaches in the control room, that would be all they needed now.

This has led some to believe the word may in fact be cockroaches.

There were these big cockroaches on the wall every night and, after a while, I started talking to them.

It is not the same species as the American cockroach.

Cockroaches become adults in 3-4 months and can live up to one year.

He left the cockroach where it was, out of respect for the dead.

The part about the cockroach has a somewhat longer history.

"Got any security of his place on the night Cockroach bought it?"

Some of them, you could shake hands with the cockroaches.

They scattered like cockroaches when the American turned on them.

"Now, what am I going to do with a cockroach like you?"

Had I heard the best way to get rid of cockroaches, she asked.

"I was never able to get cockroaches before," he said.

Like a cockroach, she would find safety in the walls.

"They used to say, not even a cockroach could get in here," she said.

They were of no help with anything beyond the occasional cockroach.

But to those two animals can be added a third: the cockroach.