0 a man, especially one who is well-dressed in a way that attracts attention, who makes money dishonestly
They have exalted the vulgarian and scrounger and made life safe for the spiv.
I think that at the moment these people are living almost in a "spiv" car dealers' paradise.
This will be part of the spiv's paradise with privatisation within the fire service.
It may turn out to be nothing better than a land "spiv's" bauble.
They have the power to direct "spivs" to work on it at a labour camp.
Assume that he sweeps into the industrial net the barrow boys, the spivs and all the other flora and fauna and excrescences of social life.
One would have people advising spivs on the best places where they could secure capital appreciation in the future.
That will immediately control all those spivs, hangers-on and racecourse touts, because the bookmaker would have to register and pay for all his employees.
