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Bucket shop

Bucket shop Meaning & Definition
Bucket shop Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Bucket shop?

[n] (formerly) a cheap saloon selling liquor by the bucket
[n] an unethical or overly aggressive brokerage firm

Synonyms | Synonyms for Bucket shop:

Related Terms | Find terms related to Bucket shop: barroom | boiler room | boozer | brokerage | brokerage house | brokerage office | bunco game | con game | confidence game | drinkery | fall to | goldbrick | jump in | set to | shell game | skin game | stockbrokerage | thimblerig | thimblerigging

See Also | brokerage | brokerage firm | securities firm | tap house | tavern

Bucket shop In Webster's Dictionary

\Buck"et shop`\ An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc. [Slang, U.S.]

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