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/Sounds like "poo" (as in "pool") + "poo" (as in "pool") + "seh" (as in "set") + "REE" (as in "reed") + "ah" (as in "art")/

Meaning

A restaurant or stand where freshly made pupusas are prepared and sold, the national dish of El Salvador. Pupuserías are the gastronomic heart of Salvadoran culture.

Examples

There's an amazing Salvadoran pupusería near my house.

That pupusería makes the best cheese and loroco ones.

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Regional synonyms

In Mexico, to mentally exhaust yourself trying to solve a problem until your brain just gives out with nothing to show for it. The image is a lightbulb that has burned out: it used to illuminate things, now it is just dark.