bucket shop
Stock Exchange. an unsound, unethical, or overly aggressive brokerage house.
Slang. any shady commercial agency, as one dealing in illegally priced theater tickets.
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How to use bucket shop in a sentence
It made Rockefeller's little kerosene speculation look like a bucket shop.
The Gentle Grafter | O. HenryCreed is as akin to righteousness as a 'bucket shop' to the kingdom of heaven.
Wise or Otherwise | Lydia LeavittA bucket shop is where you can buy stock in small lots, putting down a dollar a share as margin.
Helping Himself | Horatio AlgerThe bucket shop posts them as the terms upon which its patrons may make bets with the keeper.
Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World | Clifton R. WooldridgeThe bucket shop proprietor is ready to make all deals offered in any commodity that fluctuates in price.
Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World | Clifton R. Wooldridge
British Dictionary definitions for bucket shop
an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds
mainly British any small business that cannot be relied upon, esp one selling cheap airline tickets
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