Roach motel may mean:
- A low-priced motel or comparable lodging facility, usually a considerably older property in disrepair, not affiliated with a major chain, and located in a decaying area of town.
- Roach Motel (insect trap), a device used to catch cockroaches.
- An American hardcore punk band sometimes referred to as the first punk band formed in Florida.
- In computers, sometimes as slang use:
- Sometimes used to refer to a proprietary file standard -- "you can check your data in, but you can't check it out".
- A property of the Java Memory Model, which lets compilers and Java Virtual Machines move accesses to memory into synchronized blocks, but not to move them out.
Famous quotes containing the word motel:
“The hotel was once where things coalesced, where you could meet both townspeople and travelers. Not so in a motel. No matter how you build it, the motel remains the haunt of the quick and dirty, where the only locals are Chamber of Commerce boys every fourth Thursday. Who ever heard the returning traveler exclaim over one of the great motels of the world he stayed in? Motels can be big, but never grand.”
—William Least Heat Moon [William Trogdon] (b. 1939)