Definition of "vig" in Englisch

noun

1. (slang) Synonym of vigorish (“charge taken on bets”).

2. (US slang, crime) Synonym of vigorish (“interest from a loan, as from a loan shark”).

   • 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).

3. Synonym of vigorish (“commission, finder's fee, or similar extra charge”).