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Wide boy: Music, Musical references & Fictional portrayals

Wide boy is a British term for a man who lives by his wits, wheeling and dealing. According to the Oxford English Dictionary it is synonymous with spiv. The word "wide" used in this sense means wide-awake or sharp-witted. It applies to the wide-lapelled suits and broad ties, commonly called kippers, after the similarly broad fish. The term was used in a…

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Wide boy topic overview

The analysis highlights Music, Musical references and Fictional portrayals as prominent areas in the source structure around Wide boy.

Related topics
44
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
48
Extracted relationships
57
Concept neighborhoods
13
Bridge connections
48

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Musical references · 17 topics
Fictional portrayals · 13 topics
Overview · 10 topics
Other usage · 4 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Fictional portrayals

Musical references

Other usage

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Wide boy connects Entity context

The extracted context around Wide boy shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Wide boy → Castle, Dad's Army, Del Boy, EastEnders, Elephant, Fictional, Flash Harry, Frank Butcher, Horses, Jim London, Only Fools, Private Walker, Round, St Trinian's, Susan Shaw, Sydney Tafler, The, Up, Vincent Swan, White Gold Another extracted example is Wide boy → Act, Bright Lights Tonight, Earth, In Richard Thompson's, Kinks, Linda Thompson, Preservation, Ray Davies, Richard, Scum, See, Stand Up Comic, The, The Kinks, This, Thompson, Want, When. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Wide boy

Top relations

related to Fictional portrayals · 20
Wide boy → Castle, Dad's Army, Del Boy, EastEnders, Elephant, Fictional, Flash Harry, Frank Butcher, Horses, Jim London, Only Fools, Private Walker, Round, St Trinian's, Susan Shaw, Sydney Tafler, The, Up, Vincent Swan, White Gold
related to Musical references · 18
Wide boy → Act, Bright Lights Tonight, Earth, In Richard Thompson's, Kinks, Linda Thompson, Preservation, Ray Davies, Richard, Scum, See, Stand Up Comic, The, The Kinks, This, Thompson, Want, When
related to External links · 5
Wide boy → Archived, London Books, Martin Knight, Wayback Machine, Wide Boys Never Work
related to Other usage · 4
Wide boy → Association, Gaelic, Rugby Football, Wide
is a · 1
Wide boy → British term for a man who lives by his wits

Important terminology

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Important terminology

wide boy term boys song used market album released called dealing describe criminal world war newspapers use black trader also

Wide boy relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 57 structured relationships around Wide boy. Examples in this analysis include Wide boy → is a → British term for a man who lives by his wits and Del Boy from Only Fools → instance of → Fictional portrayalsFictional wheeler-dealer characters. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Wide boyis aBritish term for a man who lives by his wits0.90text
Del Boy from Only Foolsinstance ofFictional portrayalsFictional wheeler-dealer characters0.80text
Horsesinstance ofFictional portrayalsFictional wheeler-dealer characters0.80text
Frank Butcher from EastEndersinstance ofFictional portrayalsFictional wheeler-dealer characters0.80text
Private Walker from Dad's Armyinstance ofFictional portrayalsFictional wheeler-dealer characters0.80text
Jim London from Up the Elephantinstance ofFictional portrayalsFictional wheeler-dealer characters0.80text
Round the Castleinstance ofFictional portrayalsFictional wheeler-dealer characters0.80text
Vincent Swan from White Goldinstance ofFictional portrayalsFictional wheeler-dealer characters0.80text
and Flash Harry from the St Trinian's filmsinstance ofFictional portrayalsFictional wheeler-dealer characters0.80text
all exemplify various wide boyinstance ofFictional portrayalsFictional wheeler-dealer characters0.80text
Wide boyrelated to External linksLondon Books0.60section
Wide boyrelated to External linksWide Boys Never Work0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Wide boy bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Wide, Boys and Released. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Wide boy
    • Wide
    • Boys
    • Released
    • Band
    • Single
    • Song
    • Album
    • Film
    • Never
    • Term
    • Called
    • London
  • wide boy
    • Wide
    • Boys
    • Released
    • Band
    • Single
    • Song
    • Album
    • Film
    • London
    • Never
    • Term
    • Title
  • del boy
    • Wide
    • Boys
    • Band
    • Single
    • Released
    • Film
    • London
    • Never
    • Term
    • Title
    • Work
    • Also
  • black market
    • Newspapers
    • Market
    • Use
    • Cockney
    • Dealing
    • Often
    • War
    • World
    • Early
    • Film
    • Never
    • Trader
  • cockney
    • Early
    • Film
    • Never
    • Trader
    • Use
    • Work
    • Market
    • Term
    • Boys
    • Wide
  • world war ii
    • War
    • World
    • Black
    • Criminal
    • Describe
    • First
    • Newspapers
    • Market
    • Term
    • Used
  • tom robinson band
    • Single
    • Boy
    • Commonly
    • Title
    • Wide
    • Boys
    • Released
    • Used
    • Song
  • eponymous first lp
    • War
    • World
    • Released
    • Used
    • Term
    • Boys
    • Song
    • Wide

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Wide boy, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Wide boy with Musical references. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Wide boyMusical references · splits 31 ⟂ 18
Wide boyFictional portrayals · splits 35 ⟂ 14
Wide boyOverview · splits 38 ⟂ 11
Wide boyOther usage · splits 44 ⟂ 5

Map overview Semantic statistics

Wide boy

Nodes49
Edges48
Triples57
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.040816
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Wide boy to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Music, Musical references & Fictional portrayals, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Wide boy · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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