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What is a spiv?

What is a spiv? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Britain, dated) A smartly dressed person who trades in illicit, black-market or stolen goods.
  2. (Britain, dated) A flashy con artist, often homeless, who lives by his wits.
  3. (Britain, dated) In Scotland Yard usage, a low and common thief.
  4. (Britain, dated) A slacker; one who shirks responsibility.
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His plea for managers to be given clear objectives and left in peace was blamed for leaving banks to the mercy of spiv traders.
Convicted crook Ray Williams is doing even more porridge than insurance spiv Rodney Adler.
Touts On Tour introduced us to that endangered species the Cockney spiv, while The Heist assembled a Lavender Hill mob of former villains to pull of a spoof robbery.
Odd as it sometimes looks on an old Etonian like Mr Cameron, the spiv suit of aspiration will never really fit Mr Brown.
Think Victoriana, original 1920s flapper, Home Front clothing from the 1940s and Demob and spiv suits for the guys.
The extraordinary thing is she put up with such a second-rate spiv for so long.

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