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/Sounds like "boh" (as in "boat") + "DEH" (as in "debt") + "gah" (as in "garden")/

Meaning

A small neighborhood shop in Venezuela and the Caribbean where you find basic products and a bit of everything. It's more than a store, it's the neighborhood meeting point where you catch up on local news.

Examples

Buy bread at the bodega downstairs.

The neighborhood bodega has everything.

Word family

A classic street scam where someone approaches you with a package supposedly full of cash they just "found" and convinces you to put up your own money as a sign of good faith, only to disappear with your real cash while you're left holding worthless paper. It's one of the oldest cons in Latin America.