English

Noun

vig ‎(plural vigs)

1. (slang) A charge taken on bets, as by a bookie or gambling establishment.
   • 2009, Wayne L. Winston, Mathletics: How Gamblers, Managers, and Sports Enthusiasts Use Mathematics, page 256,

     The bookmaker's mean profit per dollar bet is called vigorish or “the vig.” In our example, 11 + 11 = $22 is bet, and the bookmaker wins $1 so the vig is 1/22 = 4.5%.

2. (slang) 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).

   • 2005, F. P. Lione, The Crossroads, Midtown Blue Book #2, page 100,

     The guy was probably professional muscle, a leg breaker who collects vig for a loan shark. (Vig is a mob term for interest on loans to a loan shark.)

3. A commission, finder's fee, or similar extra charge.

Synonyms

• vigorish
• juice
• overround

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *uig-, from Proto-Indo-European *u(e)i-K- 'to revolve, turn, twist'. Cognate to Old English wice ‎(“patch”) and Old Norse vik ‎(“bight”)^[1].

Noun

vig m (indefinite plural vigje, definite singular vigu, definite plural vigjet)

1. stretcher, litter, bier, transition (consisting of beams)

Derived terms

• vigan

References

1. ↑ Albanische Etymologien (Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz), Bardhyl Demiraj, Leiden Studies in Indo-European 7; Amsterdam - Atlanta 1997, p.418

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːg

Verb

vig

1. imperative of viga.

Adjective

vig (comparative vigare, superlative vigast)

1. (of a person) limber, supple

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [viɡ]

Noun

vig ‎(plural vigs)

1. week
2. sennight, sevennight

Declension