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/Sounds like "trah" (as in "tract") + "peh" (as in "pet") + "ah" (as in "art") + "DOHR" (as in "door")/

Meaning

A mop with a long stick and rag for cleaning floors with water in Mexico and Colombia. It's that cleaning tool your mom forced you to use every Saturday while you cleaned the whole house.

Examples

Run the mop over the kitchen floor, it's sticky.

The mop broke from so much use.

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Regional synonyms

A compliment tossed at someone in public, usually about their looks. In Spanish-speaking cultures, piropos range from poetic verses to blunt flattery. How welcome they are depends entirely on context and tone: street piropos are increasingly seen as unwanted in big cities.