Definitions for bucket-shop

bucket-shop bucket shop

Bucket-Shop is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 613 anagrams from letters in bucket-shop (-bcehkopstu).

Definitions for bucket-shop

noun

  1. Stock Exchange. an unsound, unethical, or overly aggressive brokerage house.
  2. Slang. any shady commercial agency, as one dealing in illegally priced theater tickets.

Origin of bucket-shop

An Americanism dating back to 1870-75; originally a cheap drinking establishment, allegedly so called because liquor was mixed or sold in buckets

Examples for bucket-shop

Using the methods it does, the "bucket shop" is twice dishonored.

It made Rockefeller's little kerosene speculation look like a bucket shop.

A bucket shop is where you can buy stock in small lots, putting down a dollar a share as margin.

The bucket shop posts them as the terms upon which its patrons may make bets with the keeper.

Of course, if you take the bucket shop's advice you surely are likely to be wrong.

A bucket shop is destroyed if it loses its supply of quotations.

In fact, if he offers to do so, it looks as though he were running a bucket shop.

Well, said he, thats all right, but I knew a man that made a whole barrel out of a bucket shop.

Once bit, twice shy; and as for the bucket shop, I'll have none of it.

Creed is as akin to righteousness as a 'bucket shop' to the kingdom of heaven.

Word Value for bucket-shop
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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