bucket shop
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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
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
He loitered much about the "bucket shop," and now and then took a "deal" as some friend gave him a "pointer."
From The Evolution of Dodd by William Hawley Smith
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