单词 | bucket shop |
释义 | bucket shopSEE SYNONYMS FOR bucket shop ON THESAURUS.COM nounStock Exchange. an unsound, unethical, or overly aggressive brokerage house. Slang. any shady commercial agency, as one dealing in illegally priced theater tickets. Origin of bucket shopAn Americanism dating back to 1870–75; originally a cheap drinking establishment, allegedly so called because liquor was mixed or sold in buckets Words nearby bucket shopbucketful, bucket ladder, bucket list, bucket out, bucket seat, bucket shop, bucket truck, buckeye, Buckeye State, Buckfast, buck fever Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for bucket shopBritish Dictionary definitions for bucket shopbucket shop nounan unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds mainly British any small business that cannot be relied upon, esp one selling cheap airline tickets Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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