bucket shops

A form of bucket shop — A stockbroking firm which takes small orders from clients and takes them on its own account rather than actually transmitting them to the market. Prevalent in the US 1870s to 1920s; often set up as shop-fronts in the 1920s.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of bucket shop
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