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View synonyms for bucket shop
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
noun
- 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
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bucket shop1
An Americanism dating back to 1870–75; originally a cheap drinking establishment, allegedly so called because liquor was mixed or sold in buckets
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Example Sentences
It made Rockefeller's little kerosene speculation look like a bucket shop.
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Creed is as akin to righteousness as a 'bucket shop' to the kingdom of heaven.
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A bucket shop is where you can buy stock in small lots, putting down a dollar a share as margin.
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The bucket shop posts them as the terms upon which its patrons may make bets with the keeper.
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The bucket shop proprietor is ready to make all deals offered in any commodity that fluctuates in price.
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