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Bocha is a Brazilian game in which the objective is to hit one ball into another. Bocha is a modified version of the European game known in English as "bocce." The first rules for the game were established by the Portuguese prince Pedro Álvares Cabral in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Little modifications have been made since then, most of them concerning the break of the game into periods of time.

A more hardcore version of the game has been quite popular among the youth in the past 3 years, which brings attention once again to the almost forgotten sport of bocha.

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Bocha is also slang in Hawaii used among local Japanese meaning to shower or bathe.

[edit] See also

• Bocce
• Japanese loanwords in Hawaii