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A trash can or garbage bin. (While this word usually refers to a large rooftop water storage tank in other Spanish-speaking countries, in Panama it is the common term for a waste container).
Hey, throw that empty bag in the tinaco.
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A common term for a trash can or garbage bin. (The word is derived from Tin & Co., the company responsible for waste collection in Panama City and Colon during the construction of the Canal, whose name appeared on all the waste containers).
Throw it in the tinaco : Put a bag in the tinaco
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A derogatory term used to describe a fat or obese person, particularly women (a tinaco is a large, bulky water storage tank found on rooftops).
Did you see Maria? She is unrecognizable, she looks like a tinaco.
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a very fat man or woman, used as a derogatory nickname for someone whose body shape resembles a large water storage tank (tinacos are the large, typically plastic tanks found on rooftops to store water).
here comes the tinaco, run!
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