bucket

Example Sentences

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The bucket shop occupied a similar gray zone as the local bookie.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

“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

The bucket shop occupied a similar gray zone as the local bookie.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

The subsequent investigation under New York’s Martin Act brought down the Consolidated, and helped end the heyday of the bucket shop.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

Hadel pounced on me and flipped the bucket on top of me.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff