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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
vigorish/ˈvɪɡ(ə)rɪʃ/

▶noun US informal

1 an excessive rate of interest on a loan.

2 the percentage deducted from a gambler's winnings by the organizers of a game.

– origin early 20th cent.: prob. from Yiddish, from Russ. vyigrysh ‘gain, winnings’.

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