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单词 bucket shop
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
bucket shop′, 
    1. Business[Stock Exchange.]an unsound, unethical, or overly aggressive brokerage house.
    2. Communications, Slang Terms[Slang.]any shady commercial agency, as one dealing in illegally priced theater tickets.
    • origin, originally a cheap drinking establishment, allegedly so called because liquor was mixed or sold in buckets 1870–75, American.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
bucket shop n
  1. an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds
  2. chiefly Brit any small business that cannot be relied upon, esp one selling cheap airline tickets
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