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bucket shop
Definition: an unethical or overly aggressive brokerage firm
bucket shop
Definition: (formerly) a cheap saloon selling liquor by the bucket
Definition: A stockbroking firm which takes small orders from clients and takes them on its own account rather than actually transmitting them to the market. Prevalent in the US 1870s to 1920s; often set up as shop-fronts in the 1920s.