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/Sounds like "RAHM" (as in "rapper") + "plah" (as in "plan")/

Meaning

Low-class, tasteless, or lacking refinement, but without pretense. Something rampla doesn't aspire to elegance and doesn't pretend to. It's the raw, unpolished version of a thing, person, or situation.

Examples

That song is pretty trashy but it really catches on.

She's uncultured but everyone likes her.

Regional synonyms

A rushed, sloppy job done badly and left half-finished. In Spain, a 'chapuza' is the renovation that makes everything worse, the repair that broke two other things, the shortcut that turned into a disaster. The bricklayer who did a chapuza is somewhere between criminal and legendary.