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/Sounds like "lahm" (as in "lava") + "PAH" (as in "park") + "soh" (as in "solo")/

Meaning

A mop in Argentina and Uruguay, the cleaning instrument for scrubbing floors until they shine. The River Plate mop is basically the same thing but with a different name, as usual between countries.

Examples

Run the lampazo, everything's dirty.

We bought a new lampazo because the old one was done.

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Regional synonyms

To be completely stunned and frozen by surprise, unable to react for a moment. In Colombia and Venezuela, "quedarse patidifuso" happens when reality delivers something so far beyond what you expected that your brain just stops briefly before it can process the news.