An exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest.
Fee collected by a bookmaker, casino, or loanshark.
A percentage (of winnings or loot or profit) taken by an operator or gangster.
1 Big gambling layouts know within minutes if a table is not making its vigorish .
2 Once in a while it gives you a little more vigorish than the other guy has, that's all.
3 That's its vigorish - its percentage .
4 That slim advantage, which is known as the vigorish , or the vig, is all the bookie has going for him... .
5 One word from Johnny about an executive with vigorish problems was all that was needed for the gang to offer their lending services.
6 Of course, I could have let the table's six per cent vigorish take it away from me, but that would have taken longer.
7 "But you had enough vigorish to catch them," she pointed out.
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