English Dictionary
poach
v 1: hunt illegally; "people are poaching elephants for their
ivory"
2: cook in a simmering liquid; "poached apricots"
English Computing Dictionary
roach
A {Bell Labs} term meaning destroy, especially of a
data structure. Hardware gets {toast}ed or {fried}, software
gets roached.
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[{Jargon File}]
(1999-02-08)