单词 | bucket shop |
释义 | bucket shop 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. [1870-75, Amer.; orig. a cheap drinking establishment, allegedly so called because liquor was mixed or sold in buckets] |
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