Probably a misspelling of a place name, with "Boca X" being an old description-name of a body of water. Like Boca Raton (Florida) and many other bocas around the Spanish-speaking and formerly Spanish-speaking world. Boca Raton is often referred to as simply "Boca." If it is a geographical place name, do not translate.

Another possiblity is that the speaker is using a jargon understood by members of that group to mean "in denial."

I love this puzzles, happyfarm. Let's see the options:
1- Possible typo A (BOCA not buca): could be that BOCA CHICA ("small mouth"?, little river-mouth"?, "..."?) is some gorgeous Argentinian location.. It actually sounds pretty "pampero" to me. Of course, taking this option it could well be "buca" but I doubt it very much.
2.- Possible typo B (BUSCA not buca), so then: "BUSCA CHICA", althought the syntax is lacking elements, well, the whole sentence actually, I could be forgiven for understanding Sundance Kid as saying: "so and so is looking for some (Argentinian?, Bolivian?,...?) girl" ("...está busca(ndo) chica). Yeap, my imagination is running a bit wild.
But seriously, I think the most plausible of these two options is the hispanic location one for it blends perfectly with the rest of the sentence.
:)))

It's a seaside resort in Dominican Republic :
http://www.bocachicabeach.net/
http://www.hispaniola.com/dominicanvacation/boca-chica.html
http://www.fschad.com/html/boca_chica.html
http://www.colonialtours.com.do/hotelbo.htm
http://dr1.com/zapata/aboutus.htm
http://home.earthlink.net/~promo2000/danasa/pbc.htm
http://travel.roughguides.com/content/11759/27725.htm
http://www.gdirect.com/America/DominicanRepublic/BocaChica/
(photos: http://www.reddominicana.com/bocachica/fotos/)


It could also be in Mexico (Acapulco) : http://www.acapulco-travel.com/hotels/bocachica/home.html
http://www.mexonline.com/boca-chica.htm

Boca Chica (Little Mouth) is also the name of a bay, beach, and a resort at the Southern tip of Texas, near Brownsville. Just one more for the list!


AA

Agree with the colleague, must be 'Boca Chica', a place's name, like Boca Bayou, Boca Ratón, etc. 'Boca' means 'mouth', but in this case applies to sea reefs, which forms natural barriers; incidentally, in my country, (Dom. Rep.), there's a beautiful ( sea lagoon) beach named 'Boca Chica'.
Luck!

I agree with all of you.
Just want to add that in Acapulco (a Mexican resort) there's a hotel with that name, right by the beach.

Believe it or not, there is a Buca Chica, a restaurant in the East Village, at 13 First St in NYC. No particular cuisine listed for this place, but from the name, it looks like at attempt to combine Italian & Spanish.