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roach vt.
[Bell Labs] To destroy, esp. of a data
structure. Hardware gets toasted 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.
--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.