roachification

From roach +‎ -ification. Sense 2 was likely coined by artist Lacryboy in 2021 in a popular Twitter post featuring an illustration of a transformation sequence with the word as a caption.^[1]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɹəʊ.tʃɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɹoʊ.tʃɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/

• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: roach‧i‧fi‧ca‧tion

roachification (uncountable)

1. (literally) The act or process of becoming a roach.
3. (figuratively, Internet slang, transgender slang, sometimes derogatory or offensive) The act or process of a trans man transitioning, typically from a physically attractive feminine appearance to a conventionally unattractive masculine one. [from 2021]
   • 2025 May 17, Annika, “Roachification and Eroticizing Transmasculinity”, in ink-flavored‎^[2] (blog), Tumblr‎^[3]:

     I love roachification as a way to show a transmasculine person finally being able to relax out of femininity. Not just leaving it behind, but being too lazy to pick it back up once the masculinity “takes over.” Now that you’re comfortable enough to be lazy, dirty, and self-indulgent, why would you ever go back? I love a transmasc leaning into who they are—including, perhaps especially, if who they are is smelly and sweaty and hedonistic.

• bimbofication

• “roachification”, in Urban Dictionary, launched 1999.