Wide boy
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title:
Wide boy
text:
Wide boy is a British term for a man who lives by his wits, wheeling and dealing. According to the Oxford English Dictionary it is synonymous with spiv. The word "wide" used in this sense means wide-awake or sharp-witted. It applies to the wide-lapelled suits and broad ties, commonly called kippers, after the similarly broad fish. The term was used in a 1936 autobiography to describe criminal culture during the First World War. Newspapers of the late 1940s and 1950s often use both terms in the s
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British slang term
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_boy
date created:
2005-05-24T12:14:32Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T08:04:49Z
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