groceria

plural grocerias · alternative grocería

1. USA Hispanic grocery store.

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

   1970, Paul Spike, “The Conference Man”, in Bad News, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, published 1971, →ISBN, page 90

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   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.

   1983, Timothy Cohrs, chapter XII, in Tendencies: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s/Marek, →ISBN, page 210

   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.

   1990, Robert Chibka, chapter 6, in A Slight Lapse, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 182

   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; […]

   2001 June 24, Vivian Gornick, “My Neighborhood, Its Fall and Rise”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015