"wide boy" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Related to wide awake, i.e. sharp-witted.",
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          "ref": "1992 July 21, Edwina Currie, Diary",
          "text": "Much amusement at Westminster about David Mellor, a wide boy if ever there was one. Someone tapped his girlfriend's phone and sold the tape to The People. Very funny stuff—all about how knackered he was.",
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        "A man who lives by his wits, wheeling and dealing."
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        "(British) A man who lives by his wits, wheeling and dealing."
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          "word": "geezer"
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          "word": "spiv"
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  "etymology_text": "Related to wide awake, i.e. sharp-witted.",
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        "(British) A man who lives by his wits, wheeling and dealing."
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