I’ve heard the term “wide boy” or “wideboy” in two songs now–the Flying Pickets’ “Wideboy” and Marillion’s Hearts of Lothian, but I can’t find a definition of the term. Can somebody help me out with one? I’ve been curious about this ever since I first heard the Flying Pickets years ago.
I think it means a streetwise, well-connected youth.
It’s also the title of a Nik Kershaw song.
God, I’m old.
Dear god. Here I assumed I was just about the only person who had heard both Hearts of Lothian and the Flying Pickets’ Wideboy.