Vague, beggar, who spends sleeping anywhere, someone crafty to survive. The origin is much-discussed; Although the etymology proposed by ARTAPALO is interesting, in rioplatense lunfardo must have different by the time they appeared ( mid-19th century ). I'm going to ignore the most popular, with the company Torrant pipes, because we did not find documentation about the existence of that mark. Perhaps comes from the 39 Spanish; torrar '' which is associated with heat, toasting, and sleep or listlessness causing by the summer. The humble people, who lived in the streets of Buenos Aires, used to make coins working on the torraderos of coffee, stirring the grains toast evenly, but they tended to leave the task to sleep awhile and that associated them with voice 39 atorrantes '' begging atorradores of coffee that spent it sleeping instead of working.