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What is vigorish?
1. a charge made on bets by a casino or similar
establishment
2. interest on a loan, especially applied to loans made by
usurers or loan sharks
(from Yiddish, from Russian, Vyigrish "profits")
They nickle and dimed him to death with vigorish.
vigorish - video
Vigorish - what is it?
Interest paid to a loan shark
There was so much vigorish on that loan that I knew my thumbs were headed for a breakup.
What does "vigorish" mean?
Vigorish, or "vig", meaning the juice, or interest collected when a loan is paid back overdue.
When I didn't have enough money left over for the vig on my loan, Tony broke my legs instead.