Meaning of BUCKET SHOP
| Pronunciation: | | 'bukit shâp
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- [n] (formerly) a cheap saloon selling liquor by the bucket
- [n] an unethical or overly aggressive brokerage firm
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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