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(US) Having a style of trimming a horse's mane so that the hair stands straight up from the neck, similar to the natural growth pattern of a zebra's mane, or a mohawk haircut on a human.
(by extension) Of hair: cut or styled in such a way that it stands straight up.
1916 March 25, Irvin S. Cobb, “"Unaccustomed as I am—"”, in Saturday Evening Post:
Andrew Jackson, with that long head of his and that unroached forelock, looked a good deal like a neglected horse in the face.
1921, George Washington Ogden, Trail's End:
Riley Caldwell, the young printer, rushed past her out of the shop, his roached hair like an Algonquin's standing high above his narrow forehead,
