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n. former settlement in Nevada County, California

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Boca may refer to:

In entertainment:

  • Boca, a 1994 film starring Rae Dawn Chong
  • Boca (2010 film), a 2010 Brazilian film
  • "Boca" (The Sopranos episode), a 1999 episode of the American television series The Sopranos

In locations:

  • La Boca, a neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina
    • La Boca Formation, a geological formation in Mexico
  • Boca, California, a former settlement
  • Boca, a village in Samarinești Commune, Gorj County, Romania
  • Boca Chica, a municipality of the Santo Domingo province in the Dominican Republic
    • Boca Chica Key, an island in the lower Florida Keys
    • Boca Chica (disambiguation), several places
  • Boca, Novara, a municipality in the Province of Novara, Italy
  • Boca Del Mar, Florida, a census-designated place in Palm Beach County, Florida
  • Boca del Río, Veracruz, a city in the Mexican state of Veracruz
  • Boca Grande, Florida, a town on Gasparilla Island, Florida
  • Boca grande, several places
  • Boca Pointe, Florida, a census-designated place in Palm Beach County, Florida
  • Boca Raton, Florida, a city in Palm Beach County, Florida
    • Boca Raton (disambiguation), several places
  • Several straits separating Trinidad and Tobago from the South American mainland:
    • The Bocas del Dragón (consisting of the Boca Grande, Boca de Navios, Boca de Huevos, and Boca de Monos)
    • The Boca del Serpiente or Columbus Channel
    • The Bocas Islands, which lie in the Bocas del Dragón

In people:

  • Andrea Del Boca, an Argentine television actress
  • Carlos Bocanegra, nicknamed 'Boca', an American Soccer player

In sports:

  • Boca Juniors, a sports club based in La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Boca Unidos, a sports club based in Corrientes, Argentina
  • Boca F.C., a defunct football team from Belize
  • Boca Pietri, a football team from Bologna, Italy
  • Boca Ascesa Val Liona, a football team from Grancona, Italy
  • Sociedade Boca Júnior Futebol Clube, a football (soccer) club based in Cristinápolis, Sergipe, Brazil

In other uses:

  • Bird Observation & Conservation Australia, the former Bird Observers Club of Australia
  • Bloque Obrero Comunista de Andalucía, an Andalusian Communist group
  • Boca Burger, an American brand of vegetarian hamburger
  • Bureau of Consular Affairs (Republic of China), a government agency in Taiwan
  • BOCA National Property Maintenance Code, a publication created by the Building Officials Code Administrators International (BOCA). See International Building Code
  • Boca Research Inc., was a modem manufacturer, acquired at 2000 by Zoom Telephonics
Boca (The Sopranos)

"Boca" is the ninth episode of the HBO television series The Sopranos. It was written by Jason Cahill, Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, directed by Andy Wolk and originally aired on March 7, 1999.

Boca (2010 film)

Boca is a 2010 Brazilian crime- drama film directed by Flavio Frederico. The film was screened at the 2010 Festival do Rio.

Inspired by the autobiography of Hiroto de Moraes Joanide (played by Daniel de Oliveira), the film is set in the Boca do Lixo, a prostitution zone in São Paulo during the 1950s and 1960s.

Usage examples of "boca".

Grande is the name of the country and Boca Grande is also the name of the city, as if the place defeated the imagination of even its first settler.

Every time the sun falls on a day in Boca Grande that day appears to vanish from local memory, to be reinvented if necessary but never recalled.

I once asked the librarian at the Intellectual Union to recommend for Charlotte a history of Boca Grande.

New York and Quito, sometimes stopped in Boca Grande to refuel, and paid an inflated landing fee.

Almost everything in Boca Grande describes itself precisely as it appears, as if any ambiguity in the naming of things might cause the present to sink as tracelessly as the past.

On reflection I know only two place names in Boca Grande which evoke an idea or an event or a person, which suggest a past either Indian or colonial.

Louis confidence man named Victor Strasser who at age twenty-three floated some Missouri money to buy oil rights, at age twenty-four fled Mexico after an abortive attempt to invade Sonora, and at age twenty-five arrived in Boca Grande.

Upon his recovery from cholera he married a Mendana and proceeded to divest her family of interior Boca Grande.

It occurs to me that I was perhaps the only person in Boca Grande inconvenienced by the collapse of the Progreso causeway.

I married into one of the three or four solvent families in Boca Grande.

In any event there is not as much money in all of Boca Grande as Victor and Bianca and Antonio and Isabel and Elena accuse me of having secreted in Switzerland.

New York or Paris or Denver imagining the light in Boca Grande, how flat it is, how harsh and still.

I am interested in Charlotte Douglas only insofar as she passed through Boca Grande, only insofar as the meaning of that sojourn continues to chide me.

Later one could see her eating alone on the porch at the Capilla del Mar or at the Jockey Club, always the same table at the Jockey Club, the table beneath the photograph of the Venezuelan polo team which visited Boca Grande in 1948.

Like so many works of man in Boca Grande the Jockey Club is less than it seems: an aluminum-sided bungalow with rattan card tables and a menu written in French but translated in the kitchen into ambiguous gumbos based mainly on plantains and rice.