A fork of Rural Dictionary
1. verb: To flee without any consideration, dignity, grace or seeming self-respect, particularly from a catastrophic or embarrassing occurrence, with only one's own personal interests at stake.
2. noun: A derogatory term for a person or individual who possesses the unlikable characteristics of someone engaged in schettinoing.
1. Verb: I got caught kicking that girl-scout in the vagina because she wouldn't give me a cookie, so I Schettinoed out of there!
2. Verb: Rupert Murdoch can schettino like no other. Did you see him schettino out of that News of the World scandal? There are rats who could learn a thing or two from that man!
3. Noun: For Christ's sake Dick, stop being a Schettino, and let's get this man to a hospital. I'm sure they'll believe you when you say it was a hunting accident.
Synonym for pussy, coward, or wuss, esp. a coward with the characteristics of a douchebag.
You're the captain of the ship! Don't be such a schettino--get back on board and help rescue people!
Acting as a coward and ignoring any moral duties one may have to save one's own skin.
That chicken schettino captain took off in a lifeboat, leaving passengers to fend for themselves.
a captain leaving a sinking ship ahead of anyone else
claiming that he had accidently fallen into a lifeboat, he did a schettino
Instead, because of his selfish actions, he is now regarded as a national embarrassment in his own country. And, his name is already showing signs of becoming a by-word for shameful and stupid behavior — “to do a Schettino."