Vig vs Nig - What's the difference?
vig | nig |
(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.
(offensive, racial slur) nigger
* 1959 , Don Robertson, The three days
* 1961 , Robert Hale Strong, A Yankee private's Civil War
* 1967 , Frank Hercules, I want a black doll
As nouns the difference between vig and nig
is that vig is a charge taken on bets, as by a bookie or gambling establishment while nig is nigger.vig
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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).
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- 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.)
Synonyms
* vigorish * juice * overround ----nig
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Noun
(en noun)- He always thought one step ahead of the nigs .
- In a field near the house was a nigger working a poor old broken-down mule and another nigger sowing wheat. When we came up, both nigs quit work and stared at us.
- What part did she play in your marrying a nig — a black man — nig, nig — Negro?
