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/Sounds like "beh" (as in "bed") + "REH" (as in "red") + "dah" (as in "dart")/

Meaning

The sidewalk where pedestrians walk next to the street. In Argentina, Uruguay, and the Southern Cone, nobody says "acera", vereda has always been the go-to word for the path from your house to anywhere.

Examples

Walk on the vereda, not on the street.

The bars put tables out on the vereda.

Regional synonyms
Bandera de México
Banqueta
Bandera de Colombia
Bandera de Ecuador
Bandera de España
Bandera de Perú
Bandera de Venezuela
Acera

In Argentina, to keep grinding against the odds: pushing through a tough situation without giving up, putting in maximum effort to turn things around when everything is against you.