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/Sounds like "pah" (as in "park") + "pah" (as in "park") + "YEH" (as in "yes") + "rah" (as in "rapper")/

Meaning

A popular brass wind band that animates festivals and street parades on the Colombian Caribbean coast. The papayera is the heartbeat of coastal celebrations, marching through the streets playing cumbia and making it impossible to stand still. No coastal festivity is complete without one.

Examples

They hired a papayera for the wedding and we danced until dawn.

There is no fair on the coast without a good papayera opening the parade.

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Regional synonyms

A difficult, stubborn person who gives you a hard time and won't budge. In Mexico fregado is used for someone who's a pain to deal with, hardheaded, unpleasant or just relentlessly troublesome.