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Bucket Shop

Definitions: Bucket Shop

Bucket Shop

Noun

1. An unethical or overly aggressive brokerage firm.

2. (formerly) a cheap saloon selling liquor by the bucket.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms within Context: Bucket Shop

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Intention

Gaming house, gambling house, betting house; bucket shop; gambling joint; totalizator, totalizer; hell; betting ring; dice, dice box.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bucket Shop

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bucket shop

39

airline bucket shop

5

bucket shop travel

3

bucket shop uk

3

airline ticket bucket shop

2

airfare bucket shop

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Bucket Shop

Language Translations for "bucket shop"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

unreele maklerfirma, schwindelmakler, agentur für billigreisen. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ucketbay opshay

   

Turkish

  

borsa hisselerinden vurgun yapan salaş yer. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Bucket Shop

Misspellings

"Bucket Shop" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bucketshop. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Bucket Shop

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-e-h-k-o-p-s-t-u"

-2 letters: buckshot, ketchups, subepoch, tuckshop.

-3 letters: beshout, botches, buckets, buckoes, butches, ketchup, phoebus, pockets, pouches, subecho, touches.

-4 letters: boches, bosket, bucket, buckos, buteos, chokes, chouse, chutes, coupes, couths, epochs, obtuse, ouches, ouphes, pocket, putsch, scouth, sketch, socket, tophes, tophus, touche, tusche, upshot.

-5 letters: becks, besot, beths, bhuts, boche, bocks, botch, bouse, bouts, bucko, bucks, butch.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Bucket Shop


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 75 63 6B 65 74      53 68 6F 70

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01110101 01100011 01101011 01100101 01110100 00100000 01010011 01101000 01101111 01110000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#117 &#99 &#107 &#101 &#116 &#32 &#83 &#104 &#111 &#112

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0075 0063 006B 0065 0074      0053 0068 006F 0070

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

368769777186253748182

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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