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/Sounds like "koh" (as in "coat") + "CHEH" (as in "check") + "rah" (as in "rapper")/

Meaning

A covered space for parking your car at home. The garage that also doubles as a storage room, workshop, and rehearsal space for the rock band that never took off.

Examples

Pull the car into the cochera.

The cochera has room for two cars.

Regional synonyms
Bandera de Argentina
Bandera de Chile
Bandera de Colombia
Bandera de España
Parking

An informal pickup soccer game between friends, no league, no referee, just pure street football on any available patch of ground. In Costa Rica, the mejenga is a social institution: on weekends and after work, groups of Ticos gather to play for the joy of playing. No other Spanish-speaking country uses this exact word.