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What's a "bodega"? I'm surprised to see this word in English, also considered as a basic service (not a wine cellar then?). In Spanish it's one of the two evolutions of Greek "apotheke", the other one being "botica" (farmacy).


I know it with these meanings, but used it in the third form (here's from Wiktionary):

(1) A storehouse for maturing wine, a winery.

(2) A store specializing in Hispanic groceries.

(3) (slang, New York) Any convenience store.


OK, "el chino" then.


It's New Yorker slang for 'small convenience store usually owner operated.'


Some pics of the kind of thing refered to https://www.google.com/search?q=bodega&num=20&source=lnms&tb...




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