'Bucket shop' definitions:
Definition of 'bucket shop'
(from WordNet)
noun
An unethical or overly aggressive brokerage firm
noun
(formerly) a cheap saloon selling liquor by the bucket
Definition of 'Bucket shop'
From: GCIDE
- Bucket shop \Buck"et shop`\ An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc. [Slang, U.S.] [1913 Webster] bucketful
Synonyms of 'bucket shop'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- barroom,
- boiler room,
- boozer,
- brokerage,
- brokerage house,
- brokerage office,
- bunco game,
- con game,
- confidence game,
- drinkery,
- fall to,
- goldbrick,
- jump in,
- set to,
- shell game,
- skin game,
- stockbrokerage,
- thimblerig,
- thimblerigging