bucket-shopn.

Etymology: < bucket n.¹ + shop n., adj., and int.The Leeds Mercury of Dec. 1886 says—‘The market authority in Chicago, called the Board of Trade, would not allow a deal in ‘options’ of less than 5,000 bushels of grain. In order to catch men of small means, what was called the ‘Open Board of Trade’..commenced business in an alley under the regular Board of Trade Rooms. There was an elevator to carry the members of the board to their rooms, and occasionally a member, if trade was slack, would call out, ‘I'll send down and get a bucketful pretty soon,’ referring to the speculators in the ‘Open Board of Trade’ below. Hence the term ‘bucket shop’ came to be applied to all grain gambling institutions.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈbucket-shop.

1. An unauthorized office used originally for smaller gambling transactions in grain, and subsequently extended to offices for other descriptions of gambling and betting on the markets, the stocks, etc.; †also, a gin-mill, a low-class liquor-shop. Originally and chiefly U.S.

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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > low drinking-house

sot's-hof1532

bousing ken1567

fuddling-school1680

sot-bay1707

night-cellar1729

sot-hole1755

lush-ken1790

lush-crib1819

Tom and Jerry shop1824

Tom and Jerry1836

deadfall1837

jerry1851

shoful1851

cribc1865

bucket-shop1875

barrel-house1883

lushing-ken1883

shebang1901

barrel shop1904

blood house1913

smoke joint1931

shypoo1936

smoke-shop1937

dive bar1974

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > places for gambling

dicing-house1549

carding house1550

gaming house1562

dicing-chamber1571

tabling house1576

game house?1577

macaroni1771

gambling house1772

gambling school1773

gambling club1774

spill-house1778

gambling hall?1781

gambling den1792

gambling booth1804

hell1812

gambling hell1818

Crockford1827

silver hell1835

deadfall1837

casino1851

house1855

tripot1864

skin house1871

bucket-shop1875

gambling joint1885

salle1886

tabling den1886

spoofery1895

salle de jeu1901

strong joint1914

kitchen1924

salle privée1930

spieler1931

1875 H. B. Stowe We & our Neighbors 380 The lowest, the most dreadful of all, was what they called the bucket shops. There the vilest of liquors are mixed in buckets and sold to the wretched, crazed people.

1880 Bradstreet's 1 Dec. 1/4 The failure of the ‘Produce Exchanges’, or bucket shops..caused little excitement.

1881 N.Y. Evening Post Oct. A ‘bucket-shop’ in New York is a low ‘gin-mill’, or ‘distillery’, where small quantities of spirits are dispensed in pitchers and pails (buckets). When the shops for dealing in one-share or five-share lots of stocks were opened, these dispensaries of smaller lots than could be got from regular dealers were at once named ‘bucket-shops’.

1882 Standard 28 Dec. 6/5 A system of speculation carried on in grain in what are termed bucket-shops.

1886 Statist 28 Aug. 234 The ‘bucket shop’ is an American institution..and it was first used for retail gambling in grain.

1886 Statist 28 Aug. 235 Men opened offices..and started a business in Stocks which was simply betting..The ‘bucket shop’ keeper..offered to deal at close prices and without commission..There are ‘bucket shops’ and ‘bucket shops’. The worst class of them are thimble and pea sharpers under a more polite name.

1886 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 11 Nov. 2/2 A new plan to suppress bucket-shops and restore speculative trading to former channels.

1910 N.Y. Evening Post 4 Apr. 4 What..our people call a bucket-shop, is not only a gambling establishment pure and simple but is in most cases a gambling establishment which pretends to be something else.

1957 Encycl. Brit. IX. 703/2 ‘Bucket shop’ means the business of a sham share broker who gambles with his customers on the rise or fall in the prices of stock exchange securities without acquiring these securities at all.

1960 Times 10 June 7/2 It might be said that he was conducting a bucket-shop..except that his stock in trade was not securities but British Colonial stamps.

2. A retailer of ‘cut-price’ goods, aiming to undercut the market by working outside the official system; spec. one selling cheap airline tickets. Also attributive.

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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shops selling other specific goods

jeweller's shop1632

ironmongery1648

ironmonger1673

jeweller1675

news shop1688

print shop1689

Indian house1692

coal shed1718

pamphlet shop1721

lormery1725

drugstore1771

hardware store1777

junk store1777

chandler-shop1782

junk shop1790

music store1794

pot shop1794

finding store1822

marine store1837

picture house1838

paint shop1847

news agency1852

chemist1856

Army and Navy1878

cyclery1886

jumble-shop1893

pig shop1896

Manchester department1905

lot1909

craft shop1911

garden centre1912

pet shop1927

sex shop1949

video store1949

quincaillerie1951

home centre1955

Army-Navy1965

cookshop1967

sound shop1972

bucket-shop1973

society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [adjective] > relating to shop > selling specific goods

fish-and-chip1876

jug and bottle1894

surplus1951

bucket-shop1973

nearly-new1976

1973 Times 17 Nov. 13/1 Latest reports indicate that the introduction of ABCs has virtually driven the ‘bucket shop’ operators from that..scene.

1976 Holiday Which? May 59/3 Bucket shops (as well as other travel firms) usually advertise in the small ads of The Times, Time Out, [etc.].

1980 Daily Tel. 4 Dec. 6 The International Air Transport Association is being pressed to allow all air travellers a fair opportunity to buy cheap tickets at ‘bucket shop’ prices.

1981 Times 16 Dec. 16/8 One of the worst problems [for motorcycle manufacturers] was the activity of ‘bucket shop’ dealers who undermined the standing of official retailers.

1982 Daily Tel. 26 July 2/5 The meeting will seek..co-ordinated airline action to stamp out bucket shop sales of tickets.

1985 Times 9 Feb. 13/2 In 1985 the public will wake up and realize that bucket shops are no longer the sole purveyors of discounted tickets.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2019).

单词	bucket-shop
释义	bucket-shopn. Etymology: < bucket n.¹ + shop n., adj., and int.The Leeds Mercury of Dec. 1886 says—‘The market authority in Chicago, called the Board of Trade, would not allow a deal in ‘options’ of less than 5,000 bushels of grain. In order to catch men of small means, what was called the ‘Open Board of Trade’..commenced business in an alley under the regular Board of Trade Rooms. There was an elevator to carry the members of the board to their rooms, and occasionally a member, if trade was slack, would call out, ‘I'll send down and get a bucketful pretty soon,’ referring to the speculators in the ‘Open Board of Trade’ below. Hence the term ‘bucket shop’ came to be applied to all grain gambling institutions.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈbucket-shop. 1. An unauthorized office used originally for smaller gambling transactions in grain, and subsequently extended to offices for other descriptions of gambling and betting on the markets, the stocks, etc.; †also, a gin-mill, a low-class liquor-shop. Originally and chiefly U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > low drinking-house sot's-hof1532 bousing ken1567 fuddling-school1680 sot-bay1707 night-cellar1729 sot-hole1755 lush-ken1790 lush-crib1819 Tom and Jerry shop1824 Tom and Jerry1836 deadfall1837 jerry1851 shoful1851 cribc1865 bucket-shop1875 barrel-house1883 lushing-ken1883 shebang1901 barrel shop1904 blood house1913 smoke joint1931 shypoo1936 smoke-shop1937 dive bar1974 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > places for gambling dicing-house1549 carding house1550 gaming house1562 dicing-chamber1571 tabling house1576 game house?1577 macaroni1771 gambling house1772 gambling school1773 gambling club1774 spill-house1778 gambling hall?1781 gambling den1792 gambling booth1804 hell1812 gambling hell1818 Crockford1827 silver hell1835 deadfall1837 casino1851 house1855 tripot1864 skin house1871 bucket-shop1875 gambling joint1885 salle1886 tabling den1886 spoofery1895 salle de jeu1901 strong joint1914 kitchen1924 salle privée1930 spieler1931 1875 H. B. Stowe We & our Neighbors 380 The lowest, the most dreadful of all, was what they called the bucket shops. There the vilest of liquors are mixed in buckets and sold to the wretched, crazed people. 1880 Bradstreet's 1 Dec. 1/4 The failure of the ‘Produce Exchanges’, or bucket shops..caused little excitement. 1881 N.Y. Evening Post Oct. A ‘bucket-shop’ in New York is a low ‘gin-mill’, or ‘distillery’, where small quantities of spirits are dispensed in pitchers and pails (buckets). When the shops for dealing in one-share or five-share lots of stocks were opened, these dispensaries of smaller lots than could be got from regular dealers were at once named ‘bucket-shops’. 1882 Standard 28 Dec. 6/5 A system of speculation carried on in grain in what are termed bucket-shops. 1886 Statist 28 Aug. 234 The ‘bucket shop’ is an American institution..and it was first used for retail gambling in grain. 1886 Statist 28 Aug. 235 Men opened offices..and started a business in Stocks which was simply betting..The ‘bucket shop’ keeper..offered to deal at close prices and without commission..There are ‘bucket shops’ and ‘bucket shops’. The worst class of them are thimble and pea sharpers under a more polite name. 1886 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 11 Nov. 2/2 A new plan to suppress bucket-shops and restore speculative trading to former channels. 1910 N.Y. Evening Post 4 Apr. 4 What..our people call a bucket-shop, is not only a gambling establishment pure and simple but is in most cases a gambling establishment which pretends to be something else. 1957 Encycl. Brit. IX. 703/2 ‘Bucket shop’ means the business of a sham share broker who gambles with his customers on the rise or fall in the prices of stock exchange securities without acquiring these securities at all. 1960 Times 10 June 7/2 It might be said that he was conducting a bucket-shop..except that his stock in trade was not securities but British Colonial stamps. 2. A retailer of ‘cut-price’ goods, aiming to undercut the market by working outside the official system; spec. one selling cheap airline tickets. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shops selling other specific goods jeweller's shop1632 ironmongery1648 ironmonger1673 jeweller1675 news shop1688 print shop1689 Indian house1692 coal shed1718 pamphlet shop1721 lormery1725 drugstore1771 hardware store1777 junk store1777 chandler-shop1782 junk shop1790 music store1794 pot shop1794 finding store1822 marine store1837 picture house1838 paint shop1847 news agency1852 chemist1856 Army and Navy1878 cyclery1886 jumble-shop1893 pig shop1896 Manchester department1905 lot1909 craft shop1911 garden centre1912 pet shop1927 sex shop1949 video store1949 quincaillerie1951 home centre1955 Army-Navy1965 cookshop1967 sound shop1972 bucket-shop1973 society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [adjective] > relating to shop > selling specific goods fish-and-chip1876 jug and bottle1894 surplus1951 bucket-shop1973 nearly-new1976 1973 Times 17 Nov. 13/1 Latest reports indicate that the introduction of ABCs has virtually driven the ‘bucket shop’ operators from that..scene. 1976 Holiday Which? May 59/3 Bucket shops (as well as other travel firms) usually advertise in the small ads of The Times, Time Out, [etc.]. 1980 Daily Tel. 4 Dec. 6 The International Air Transport Association is being pressed to allow all air travellers a fair opportunity to buy cheap tickets at ‘bucket shop’ prices. 1981 Times 16 Dec. 16/8 One of the worst problems [for motorcycle manufacturers] was the activity of ‘bucket shop’ dealers who undermined the standing of official retailers. 1982 Daily Tel. 26 July 2/5 The meeting will seek..co-ordinated airline action to stamp out bucket shop sales of tickets. 1985 Times 9 Feb. 13/2 In 1985 the public will wake up and realize that bucket shops are no longer the sole purveyors of discounted tickets. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < n.1875
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