Meanings
plural cafecitos
- chiefly LatinoA small hot coffee drink, particularly Cuban espresso.
El cafecito calientito... warm with a little smoke coming out of the cup... It is something like the comadre... with the other godmother enjoyed in Juarez...
2017, Javier Armendariz Cortez, Poetry by the Border, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 631 more example
There’s nothing like walking into the bodega, grabbing an iced cafecito,^([sic]) chopping it up with everyone behind the counter + appreciating the dude who’s blasting “Oye Como Va” through his backpack speaker. In this small moment, nothing else matters. Today is a good day.
2018 July 5, “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez”, in Twitter for iPhone (tweet), retrieved 06 Jul 2021
Origin
- Spanishcafecito
- Englishcafecito
Borrowed from Spanish cafecito.
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