Meaning of groceria | Babel Free

Definitions

A Hispanic grocery store.

US

Examples

“She walked toward Avenue C. The black tar with a hideous spectre and the dim grocerías tucked into the walls.”

“The action on the block had moved from the individual stoops to the bit of sidewalk in front of a groceria about three-quarters of the way down toward First Avenue.”

“It’s a street like hundreds of others in New York, it’s got a subway stop on it, it’s mostly Spanish up there now I think, and it’s probably got cigar stores and grocerías and Spanish graffiti, which looks the same as English graffiti, since you can’t read any of it anyway.”

“On 180th Street, worse: empty lots everywhere interspersed with random sections of stores: a groceria, a drugstore, a church; a stretch of emptiness and discard; […]”

“She walked toward Avenue C. The black tar with a hideous spectre and the dim grocerías tucked into the walls.”

“It’s a street like hundreds of others in New York, it’s got a subway stop on it, it’s mostly Spanish up there now I think, and it’s probably got cigar stores and grocerías and Spanish graffiti, which looks the same as English graffiti, since you can’t read any of it anyway.”

“What little I eat comes from a grocería about ten miles down Highway 31, a place where the migrants buy their food.”

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