spivs

英 [spɪvz]

美

n.  衣冠楚楚的奸商
spiv的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• (无固定职业而)靠诈骗过日子的人;黑市商人
  Aspivis a man who does not have a regular job and who makes money by business deals which are usually illegal.

双语例句

• Politicians, I suspect, will demand tough constraints on what more than one has called the spivs and speculators who have been short-selling bank shares.
  不止一个人把那些一直在卖空银行类股票的家伙称为投机倒把分子，我猜想，政客们将会要求对这些人严加约束。
• After a huge financial crisis and a long list of scandals, banks are now viewed as incompetent profiteers run by spivs.
  在一场严重的金融危机和一系列丑闻之后，如今银行被视为由骗子经营的不称职的投机商。