Via vs Vig - What's the difference?
via | vig |
A main road or highway, especially in ancient Rome. (Mainly used in set phrases, below.)
(label) A small hole in a printed circuit board filled with metal which connects two or more layers.
By way of; passing through.
By (means of); using (a medium).
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As per (a mathematical equation).
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(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 ,
(slang) Interest from a loan shark's loan.
* 1973', '', quoted in '''2009 , Ellis Cashmore, ''Martin Scorsese's America ,
* 2005 , F. P. Lione, The Crossroads , Midtown Blue Book #2,
A commission, finder's fee, or similar extra charge.
As a preposition via
is (british spelling).As an adjective vig is
joyful, happy.via
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Etymology 1
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(en-noun)Derived terms
{{der3, via affirmativa , Via Crucis , Via Dolorosa , Via Egnatia , Via Lactea , via media , via negativa}}Etymology 2
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Noun
(en noun)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%.
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).
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.)