bucket shop
Example Sentences
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Pressler sat on the board of Sky Capital LLC, a defunct bucket shop run by the fraudster, Ross Mandell.
From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2014
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
There were those who despised him for "gambling" through a bucket shop, those who revered him for his skillful, devious, successful fight for Prohibition laws, those who admired him no matter what he did.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bottom always drop out of bucket shop at last.
From A Yellow God: an Idol of Africa by Haggard, Henry Rider
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
