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cafecito

cafecito noun: a small hot coffee drink, particularly Cuban espresso.

Noun

cafecito (plural cafecitos)

  1. (chiefly Latino) A small hot coffee drink, particularly Cuban espresso.
    • There’s nothing like walking into the bodega, grabbing an iced cafecito,^([sic]) chopping it up with everyone behind the counter + appreciating the dude who’s blasting “Oye Como Va” through his backpack speaker. In this small moment, nothing else matters. Today is a good day.2018 July 5, “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez”, in Twitter for iPhone (tweet), retrieved 06 Jul 2021
    • El cafecito calientito... warm with a little smoke coming out of the cup... It is something like the comadre... with the other godmother enjoyed in Juarez...2017, Javier Armendariz Cortez, Poetry by the Border, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 63

Forms of cafecito

pluralcafecitos

Origin of cafecito

Borrowed from Spanish cafecito.

Questions about cafecito

What does cafecito mean?
Cafecito means a small hot coffee drink, particularly Cuban espresso.
What part of speech is cafecito?
Cafecito is a noun.
What is the plural of cafecito?
The plural of cafecito is cafecitos.

Words near cafecito in the dictionary

  1. cafe terraces
  2. cafe-goer
  3. cafe-goers
  4. cafe-hop
  5. cafe-hopping
  6. cafecito
  7. cafedrine
  8. cafegee
  9. cafegees
  10. cafegoer
  11. cafegoers

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