bodega
a small, independent or family-owned grocery store, usually located in a densely populated urban environment, traditionally serving a Hispanic clientele.
(in Spain)
a wineshop.
a warehouse for storing or aging wines.
Origin of bodega
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How to use bodega in a sentence
One observer in New York tweeted how young people in her neighborhood were at a bodega “trying to negotiate buying crates” so they could do the challenge on concrete.
The viral Milk Crate Challenge has left people injured. Doctors are begging them to stop. | Timothy Bella | August 24, 2021 | Washington PostSonny is Usnavi’s 16-year-old cousin and sidekick who helps him out at the bodega, and onstage, he has a couple of solos about the disenfranchisement of Washington Heights.
How In the Heights went from a student musical to one of the summer’s biggest movies | Constance Grady | June 11, 2021 | VoxHis dream is to close up the bodega and move back to the DR, where he’ll reopen the long-dormant beachside refreshment joint his father used to run.
In the Heights Is a Love Letter to a New York City Neighborhood, Led by a Charismatic Star | Stephanie Zacharek | June 10, 2021 | TimeThere was a store owner named Leo who ran the bodega around the corner from where I grew up.
‘In the Heights’ is more than a movie to its cast. It’s a celebration of Latinas throughout history. | Candice Frederick | June 4, 2021 | Washington PostHe also channels the threads of guilt Steve feels for his unintentional role in the crime for which he’s on trial, one that left a bodega owner dead.
Monster Tells a Harrowing Story—But the Filmmaking Gets in the Way | Stephanie Zacharek | May 7, 2021 | Time
Casa Bruja's Fula Farmacia Blond Ale sells for $1.95 at bodega Mi Amiga.
House of the Witch: The Renegade Craft Brewers of Panama | Jeff Campagna | November 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST"Right now beer is a trend," Bernardo Rivas, the owner of bodega Mi Amiga tells me in the imported beer aisle.
House of the Witch: The Renegade Craft Brewers of Panama | Jeff Campagna | November 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTbodega Mi Amiga is the largest liquor store in the country—and the oldest, dating back to 1959.
House of the Witch: The Renegade Craft Brewers of Panama | Jeff Campagna | November 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOne of the stores Pragnell is referring to is bodega Mi Amiga, a veritable institution on Via Porras in downtown Panama City.
House of the Witch: The Renegade Craft Brewers of Panama | Jeff Campagna | November 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTbodega Mi Amiga sells every kind of liquor you can imagine, or that is legally allowed to be imported into Panama.
House of the Witch: The Renegade Craft Brewers of Panama | Jeff Campagna | November 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTwenty minutes later, after much backing and swearing and heaving of lines the bodega's hawser was finally put board the Maggie.
Captain Scraggs | Peter B. KyneDown the bay they raced, the bodega leading slightly, both tugs whistling at half-minute intervals.
Captain Scraggs | Peter B. KyneThe bodega has more speed than the Aphrodite, so poke ahead there and let's try to get in an hour's sleep before daylight.
Captain Scraggs | Peter B. KyneMe, I don't feel like drownin' in that engine room or gettin' cut in half by the bow o' the bodega or the Aphrodite.
Captain Scraggs | Peter B. KyneThey live toward the north coast in the vicinity of the Port of bodega.
British Dictionary definitions for bodega
/ (bəʊˈdiːɡə, Spanish boˈðeɣa) /
a shop selling wine and sometimes groceries, esp in a Spanish-speaking country
Origin of bodega
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