Cockroach
noun
A type of insect that is considered a pest. They are brown or black and usually live in dirty, dark places.
The restaurant was closed because there were cockroaches in the kitchen.
Often appears as...
- infestation of cockroaches
- kill a cockroach
noun
A contemptible person, especially someone who is deceitful, underhanded, or untrustworthy.
He's not to be trusted, that man is a cockroach.
Often appears as...
- he's a cockroach
- that cockroach
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
A type of insect that is considered a pest. They are brown or black and usually live in dirty, dark places.
The restaurant was closed because there were cockroaches in the kitchen.
Often appears as...
- infestation of cockroaches
- kill a cockroach
noun
A contemptible person, especially someone who is deceitful, underhanded, or untrustworthy.
He's not to be trusted, that man is a cockroach.
Often appears as...
- he's a cockroach
- that cockroach
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Pest Control
Refers to insects, emphasizes the need for removal or extermination in infested areas.
The exterminator came to handle the cockroach issue at our apartment.
Pro Tip 2/3Health Concern
Implicates hygiene problems and potential health risks, often in domestic environments.
Cockroaches in the home can increase the risk of asthma.
Pro Tip 3/3Survival Ability
Known for resilience, can survive harsh conditions, often mentioned in survival contexts.
Cockroaches can survive without food for a month.
Pro Tip 1/3Pest Control
Refers to insects, emphasizes the need for removal or extermination in infested areas.
The exterminator came to handle the cockroach issue at our apartment.
Pro Tip 2/3Health Concern
Implicates hygiene problems and potential health risks, often in domestic environments.
Cockroaches in the home can increase the risk of asthma.
Pro Tip 3/3Survival Ability
Known for resilience, can survive harsh conditions, often mentioned in survival contexts.
Cockroaches can survive without food for a month.
Pro Tip 1/3Pest Control
Refers to insects, emphasizes the need for removal or extermination in infested areas.
The exterminator came to handle the cockroach issue at our apartment.
Pro Tip 2/3Health Concern
Implicates hygiene problems and potential health risks, often in domestic environments.
Cockroaches in the home can increase the risk of asthma.
Pro Tip 3/3Survival Ability
Known for resilience, can survive harsh conditions, often mentioned in survival contexts.
Cockroaches can survive without food for a month.
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Making neuroscience...
cockroach just uses the antenna to sort of navigate the world right if you look at the antenna sit covered with hairs if you look at each hair it has neurons inside of it what are those neurons telling the brain it's telling it like things that it touches or things that it sort of the chemicals it's almost like a nose that it's sensing back in and so
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What would happen if...
Animals follow the unchecked spread of native and non-native plants, venturing into new habitats with the help of our leftover bridges. In general, our infrastructure saves some animals and dooms others. Cockroaches continue to thrive in their native tropical habitats, but without our heating systems,
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Cockroach Infestation PIPE...
cockroaches are ready to make more cockroaches two months after birth males fondle the antennae of other roaches to determine if they're female or not when he finds a female the male secretes some sticky roach candy on its back raises its wings and offers it to its potential mate
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Ed Yong: Suicidal wasps,...
the emerald cockroach wasp, and it is a truth universally acknowledged that an emerald cockroach wasp in possession of some fertilized eggs must be in want of a cockroach. When she finds one, she stabs it with a stinger that is also a sense organ.
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Zombie Parasites PIPE Nat...
paralysis the cockroach and then it snakes its stinger into the brain of the cockroach where it has special censors so that it can grope around the brain and find exactly the part that is responsible for generating the motivation for movement.
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Why are cockroaches so...
the results will likely be fatal. Once absorbed, the chemical binds to sodium channel proteins, which help propagate nerve impulses. The pyrethroid keeps the sodium channels open, so the nerves fire repeatedly. And soon, the cockroach dies.
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Creepy Cockroach...
cockroaches two months after birth males fondle the ant any of other roaches to determine if they're female or not when he finds a female the male secretes some sticky roach candy on its back raises its wings and offers it to
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The Cockroach Beatbox
to help me out with this. So there we go. This is the first time this has ever happened in the history of mankind. Human beatbox to a cockroach leg. When you guys go back to your high school, think about neuroscience
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Parasite tales: The...
you start to kind of respect this very creepy wasp. You see, the thing is that when it attacks the cockroach, it's not just stinging wildly, it delivers two precise stings.
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Filming Inside a Cave...
and it's just been getting bigger and deeper and steeper and cockroaches love it they're just feeding on all the nutrients of the
Video examples
Making neuroscience...
cockroach just uses the antenna to sort of navigate the world right if you look at the antenna sit covered with hairs if you look at each hair it has neurons inside of it what are those neurons telling the brain it's telling it like things that it touches or things that it sort of the chemicals it's almost like a nose that it's sensing back in and so
Video examples
What would happen if...
Animals follow the unchecked spread of native and non-native plants, venturing into new habitats with the help of our leftover bridges. In general, our infrastructure saves some animals and dooms others. Cockroaches continue to thrive in their native tropical habitats, but without our heating systems,
Video examples
Cockroach Infestation PIPE...
cockroaches are ready to make more cockroaches two months after birth males fondle the antennae of other roaches to determine if they're female or not when he finds a female the male secretes some sticky roach candy on its back raises its wings and offers it to its potential mate
Video examples
Ed Yong: Suicidal wasps,...
the emerald cockroach wasp, and it is a truth universally acknowledged that an emerald cockroach wasp in possession of some fertilized eggs must be in want of a cockroach. When she finds one, she stabs it with a stinger that is also a sense organ.
Video examples
Zombie Parasites PIPE Nat...
paralysis the cockroach and then it snakes its stinger into the brain of the cockroach where it has special censors so that it can grope around the brain and find exactly the part that is responsible for generating the motivation for movement.
Video examples
Why are cockroaches so...
the results will likely be fatal. Once absorbed, the chemical binds to sodium channel proteins, which help propagate nerve impulses. The pyrethroid keeps the sodium channels open, so the nerves fire repeatedly. And soon, the cockroach dies.
Video examples
Creepy Cockroach...
cockroaches two months after birth males fondle the ant any of other roaches to determine if they're female or not when he finds a female the male secretes some sticky roach candy on its back raises its wings and offers it to
Video examples
The Cockroach Beatbox
to help me out with this. So there we go. This is the first time this has ever happened in the history of mankind. Human beatbox to a cockroach leg. When you guys go back to your high school, think about neuroscience
Video examples
Parasite tales: The...
you start to kind of respect this very creepy wasp. You see, the thing is that when it attacks the cockroach, it's not just stinging wildly, it delivers two precise stings.
Video examples
Filming Inside a Cave...
and it's just been getting bigger and deeper and steeper and cockroaches love it they're just feeding on all the nutrients of the
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Quote examples
Byron Katie
American Author
I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life.
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Sebastian Horsley
British Artist
You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have been completely unimportant; that in the great sum of things, all a man's endless grapplings are no more significant than the scuttlings of a cockroach.
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Wesley Snipes
American Actor
I've reduced a lot of the stress in my life. I've gotten rid of a lot of things. The light was turned on and a lot of the cockroaches started spinning. I swept them out the door. And sometimes you just have to throw things out because they carry a certain energy.
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Zachary Quinto
American Actor
What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me - cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.
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Norman Mailer
American Novelist
I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.
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Shamita Shetty
I am afraid of heights and water, but I haven't been able to shake off my fear of cockroaches.
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Brooke Burke
American Model
I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean.
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Willie Davis
Athlete
If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach.
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Kevin Owens
Canadian Athlete
Cockroaches can't survive me, and neither can Dean Ambrose.
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Liza Soberano
Filipino Actress
I'm not afraid of cockroaches.
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Byron Katie
American Author
I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life.
Quote examples
Sebastian Horsley
British Artist
You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have been completely unimportant; that in the great sum of things, all a man's endless grapplings are no more significant than the scuttlings of a cockroach.
Quote examples
Wesley Snipes
American Actor
I've reduced a lot of the stress in my life. I've gotten rid of a lot of things. The light was turned on and a lot of the cockroaches started spinning. I swept them out the door. And sometimes you just have to throw things out because they carry a certain energy.
Quote examples
Zachary Quinto
American Actor
What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me - cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.
Quote examples
Norman Mailer
American Novelist
I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.
Quote examples
Shamita Shetty
I am afraid of heights and water, but I haven't been able to shake off my fear of cockroaches.
Quote examples
Brooke Burke
American Model
I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean.
Quote examples
Willie Davis
Athlete
If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach.
Quote examples
Kevin Owens
Canadian Athlete
Cockroaches can't survive me, and neither can Dean Ambrose.
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Liza Soberano
Filipino Actress
I'm not afraid of cockroaches.
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