Used very much by Argentineans, it is like using "like" , for using as an example, comparing with something, about to impersonate an ocassion or for "guy"
-Y yo estaba tipo : "Y este tipo quien se piensa que es?"
(And I was like: "And this guy who does he think he is?"
When your illiterate, dumb, ignorant cunt of a boss proofreads your flawless document and reports to you that ‘...there are a few tipos’ but he is too simple to understand what the definition of irony is.