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Termnology used by bicycle couriers to describe motorized 4 wheeled city vehicles. i.e., cars, trucks, taxis are the worst, blah blah.
Dude: "OMGFG! Look out!"
Dumb guy: ". . .Wha?, of F U-!"
Dude: "OMG! Dumb guy got eaten by tintop, guys, guys, sh!t!"

Sentence 1: "F@#*in' tintops"
Sentence 2: "these F*#$ing TINTOPS show us No F$(#ing respect, D#MN IT!"
by duskins June 23, 2006
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To occupy oneself with unimportant matters and neglect priorities during a crisis.

Origin: (The source of this phrase is the story that Nero played the fiddle (violin) while Rome Burned during the Great Fire in AD 64).
duskins: "Just waiting for the time to be ideal!"
Zavah: "That time is never going to exist,why are you fiddling while Rome burns?"
duskins: . . . "oh f***." >_<
by duskins July 17, 2006
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