bucket

Example Sentences

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From the outside, a bucket shop resembled a legitimate brokerage.

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

Back in 1879, those clerks and salesmen and their wives who frequented bucket shops understood they were operating outside the bounds of Wall Street.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

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

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

That woke her up faster than a bucket of cold water.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti