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bucket shop

noun

Stock Exchange. an unsound, unethical, or overly aggressive brokerage house.
Slang. any shady commercial agency, as one dealing in illegally priced theater tickets.

bucket shop

an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds
any small business that cannot be relied upon, esp one selling cheap airline tickets

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75; originally a cheap drinking establishment, allegedly so called because liquor was mixed or sold in buckets

It made Rockefeller's little kerosene speculation look like a bucket shop.

Creed is as akin to righteousness as a 'bucket shop' to the kingdom of heaven.

A bucket shop is where you can buy stock in small lots, putting down a dollar a share as margin.

The bucket shop posts them as the terms upon which its patrons may make bets with the keeper.

The bucket shop proprietor is ready to make all deals offered in any commodity that fluctuates in price.

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