kerb market

or kerbstone market


nounBritish.

Origin of kerb market

1
First recorded in 1900–05

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How to use kerb market in a sentence

  • In five minutes the dull noise of the kerbstone market in Broad Street had leapt to a high note of frantic interrogation.

    Trent's Last Case | E.C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley

British Dictionary definitions for kerb market

kerb market

nounstock exchange
  1. an after-hours street market

  2. a street market dealing in unquoted securities

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