wide boy

British  

noun

1. slang  a man who is prepared to use unscrupulous methods to progress or make money

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Example Sentences

Kershaw, known for hits such as Wide Boy and Don Quixote, has released a six-track EP called These Little Things.

From BBC

Others think of him as a kind of Essex wide boy, a chancer, ready to pull the wool over your eyes.

From The Guardian

He definitely didn’t just play New York standards; he’d play Human League or Wide Boy Awake, he liked weird, dubby Sly & Robbie sounds.

From The Guardian

But he was also fascinated by cartoonist Eddie Campbell’s character Dapper John, an archetypal English “wide boy”—a man who takes unreasonable chances and gets by through resourcefulness and smooth talk.

From Slate

Only Fools and Horses, which featured Lyndhurst as the hapless Rodney and David Jason as his wide boy brother, had a slow start and it was only when it got to its third series that it became a ratings hit.

From BBC