bucket shop

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

bucket shop
    n 1: an unethical or overly aggressive brokerage firm
    2: (formerly) a cheap saloon selling liquor by the bucket

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Bucket shop \Buck"et shop`\
   An office or a place where facilities are given for betting
   small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc.
   [Slang, U.S.]
   [1913 Webster] bucketful

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

19 Moby Thesaurus words for "bucket shop":
      barroom, boiler room, boozer, brokerage, brokerage house,
      brokerage office, bunco game, con game, confidence game, drinkery,
      fall to, goldbrick, jump in, set to, shell game, skin game,
      stockbrokerage, thimblerig, thimblerigging

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