bucket shop
Example Sentences
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“They had a fine office and the largest and completest quotation board I have ever seen anywhere,” Edwin Lefèvre writes of one bucket shop in his 1923 classic, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator External link.
From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026
From the outside, a bucket shop resembled a legitimate brokerage.
From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026
Critics are calling this the bucket shop act of 2012.
From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2012
Ryanair, the "no frills" bucket shop airline, has finally confirmed that passengers will now be charged to use the loo.
From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2010
Five or six addle-headed schemes for getting rid of your money, and about as many bucket shop prospectuses.”
From Jacob's Ladder by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)