groceria

• grocería

Borrowed from United States Spanish grocería, from English grocery.^[1]

groceria (plural grocerias)

1. (US) A Hispanic grocery store.
   • 1970, Paul Spike, “The Conference Man”, in Bad News, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, published 1971, →ISBN, page 90:

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

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

     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.

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

     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.

   • 2001 June 24, Vivian Gornick, “My Neighborhood, Its Fall and Rise”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015:

     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; […]