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vigorish
noun- courage US
- “I’m sorry to crap out like this, Danny,” he said, “but I don’t have the vigorish for this job.” — George Clayton Johnson, Ocean’s Eleven, p. 187, 1960
- the interest owed on an illegal loan US
Yiddish slang from the Russian vyigrysh (winnings-out-to-pay). - [O]btained thousands of dollars that he could put to work at the loan shark’s vigorish rate of 260 percent. — Fred Cook, The Secret Rulers, p. 366, 1966
- He waited, but always collected his money plus the 20 percent “vigorish” (interest). — Phil Hirsch, Hooked, p. 101, 1968
- He wore Air corps sunglasses, combed his hair into a gelatinous country pomp and tithed his pay and tithed the vigorish on his sharking. — Earl Thompson, Tattoo, p. 293, 1974
- It costs a hundred a week vigorish to borrow the bone. — Robert Campbell, Juice, p. 20, 1988
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