anticockroach

alternative anti-cockroach

1. not comparableCombating or repelling cockroaches.

   For infested areas, use any of the anticockroach systems currently available.

   1992, Allen, Missy, Peissel, Michel, 1937-2011, Dangerous insects, page 41

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   But there are many things that you can do in your home to discourage roach populations from building. Among these, my least favorite measure — fastidious housekeeping — has proven to be the most effective anticockroach assurance.

   1996, Gordon, David G. (David George), 1950-, The compleat cockroach : a comprehensive guide to the most despised (and least understood) creature on earth, page 154

   The guards had started out with heavier anticockroach weaponry, pellet guns and the like, but solid hits tended to tear the bodies apart, which made for arguments over which pile of parts represented the bigger bug.

   1998, Pendleton, Don, Slaughter squad, page 123

   On Thursday, scientists said they had discovered why anti-cockroach product — specifically, sweet-tasting bait mixed with poison — stopped working well in the early 1990s.

   2013, Metro International, Atlantic Free Daily Newspapers Inc., Metro Halifax - May 24, 2013, page 21