Bookie's cut

Usage examples of vig.

Johnny, who had been her friend and protector when she had been the Nose, had told her he could cover for her, just up the vig on a couple of other clients, but it was risky and he had to have some payment, some sign of good faith.

I been collecting vig from him on and off since I started working for Mr Tortoni.

Rusty had been light on his vig for a while, and maybe Johnny covered for him a few weeks, floated him on his own, knowing this big insurance payment was coming, maybe setting up his own client base.

Rusty off the hook for his crushing vig and puts Louis where he belongs back in the slammer.

Johnny LaGuardia would be coming over in about two hours for his vig and Rusty had to be dead by then, blood tracking to the rail, body floating out to the bay.

They pay breath, make deals, pay the vig on loans, up cuts, things you never even heard of, Lovejoy.

Vendor shakedowns, low-end lifts, two-percent street vig, that kinda action.

Currently undergoing field and flight tests, the Vig Zam, as it was called, was heavily armored and, because it had legs but no arms, only vaguely humanoid.

If Mobile Suits often resembled giant infantry soldiers, the Vig Zam looked more like a tank.

And in pushing the Vig Zam to its technical limits, he and his engineers were following in the tradition established by their brilliant Nazi German counterparts in another age.

In an attempt to evade the attacking Suits and rise above them, he made the Vig Zam accelerate in a full power climb.

The pilot and copilot groaned in fear and did the only thing they could think of, which was to keep the Vig Zam steady on course.