vig
see also: Vig
Pronunciation
Vig
Proper noun
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see also: Vig
Pronunciation
- IPA: /vɪɡ/
vig
- (slang) A charge taken on bets, as by a bookie or gambling establishment.
- (US slang, crime) Interest from a loan shark's loan.
- 1973, Martin Scorsese, Mardik Martin (screenplay), Mean Streets, quoted in 2009, Ellis Cashmore, Martin Scorsese's America, page 118 ↗,
- “You charged a guy from the neighborhood $1800 vig?” he asks incredulously (“vig” is short for vigorish, meaning a rate of interest from a loan from an illegal moneylender).
- 1973, Martin Scorsese, Mardik Martin (screenplay), Mean Streets, quoted in 2009, Ellis Cashmore, Martin Scorsese's America, page 118 ↗,
- A commission, finder's fee, or similar extra charge.
- (gambling charge) cut, juice, overround, rake, rake-off, take, vigorish
- (loan shark's interest) vigorish
- (extra charge)
Vig
Proper noun
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