Tino: (adjective and noun) slang - a term created by Marù to designate anyone to take over at the last moment a person, group of friends, a party and sim. The term was created during the attacchinaggi of musical events in San Lorenzo district of Rome, and is the diminutive of the more explicit "raccattino", ie one that is picked up along the road. But, somehow, and being too short for "attack", the term vat over the years has grown from an initial very negative connotation to a much more acceptable, and often even affectionate nickname gradation. Verbs derived from the noun vat tinare (trans.), tinarsi (intrans.) and stina (intrans.), and nouns tun-shed , Tinetto (also adj.) tiny-town, and so on.
that strange word vat
