bucket shop

1. 1.

   an unethical or overly aggressive brokerage firm

   Broaderbrokerage
2. 2.

   (formerly) a cheap saloon selling liquor by the bucket

   Broadertavern

Questions about bucket shop

What does bucket shop mean?

bucket shop means "an unethical or overly aggressive brokerage firm". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is bucket shop a common word?

bucket shop is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.