Spiv

Definition

spiv / spv / n ( dated Brit sl derog ) လူကံုထံ ဟန္ေဆာင္ေသာ မသမာနည္းျဖင့္ ႀကီးပြားလာသူ။

Examples

1. ‘They watched in wonder as bankers
2. industrialists and assorted spivs piled up more and more riches.’
3. ‘Martin Clunes plays George Haigh
4. a wartime spiv who murdered nine people and dissolved their bodies in acid.’
5. ‘Another accusation thrown at the market is that its light regulatory touch could open the door to spivs and hopeless cases.’
6. ‘Regulars will be dressing up for the occasion too - as everything from wartime spivs to army officers and nurses.’
7. ‘In the foreground
8. the spivs of spin hawk their pretty baubles.’
9. ‘Glass cites the example of the Soviet Union
10. whose old nomenklatura may now be numbered among ‘the tyrants and spivs of the succeeding capitalist order’.’
11. ‘What such a history would particularly need to convey in relation to higher education is the paradigm shift brought about since 1992 by the increasing influence of the spivs in suits (aka managers).’
12. ‘The single exceptions (apart from the wicked spiv who finds the girls) are the only two working-class characters who show any signs of aspiration or youth.’
13. ‘Lincoln thought twice about extending her sportsmanship to helping the sepultural spiv up as she realized this would be seen as a demoralizing gesture rather than a respectful one.’
14. ‘Harry is fed up being confused
15. alarmed and he finds he has seized the little weasel
16. the little spiv and ground him like pretzel against the dividing panel.’
17. ‘Chairman of the Mid-Hants Watercress Line
18. David Snow
19. dressed as a spiv for the occasion
20. said the weekend was a resounding success with the first day attracting bigger crowds than last year.’
21. ‘I thought the art of the spiv had died out years ago.’
22. ‘She would recount how it was possible to buy anything - from meat
23. chocolate
24. cigarettes and the obligatory ‘nylons’ - from the spivs and black market racketeers.’
25. ‘A bored telemarketer teams up with a mate for a get-rich scam that takes on all the get-richer spivs.’
26. ‘That
27. and the simple fact that anybody with a gimmick on prime-time TV is bound to be a hit no matter what they do
28. whether it's nuns and paintings or suited spivs with antiques.’
29. ‘One of the choicest ironies is that he now speaks with disapproval about black marketeers
30. spivs and touts and unofficial operators
31. and has nothing but praise for his new friends in the RFU.’
32. ‘My new government of troglodytes
33. murderers and spivs barely elongates the customary scream I give upon waking.’
34. ‘Dire circumstances gave social sanction to small scale corruption and spivs were simultaneously despised and admired as buccaneers.’
35. ‘Guys like him are part of the English culture - he's like the spiv from the Second World War.’
36. ‘Get rid of these dreadful spivs with their electric guitars and let's up the current affairs quota!’