bucketshop — n. cheap saloon in the past that sold liquor in buckets; unstable and unethical brokerage firm; (Bitish Slang) travel agency that sells cheap air tickets … English contemporary dictionary
Bucket shop (stock market) — Bucket shop is a brokerage firm that “books (i.e., takes the opposite side of) retail customer orders without actually having them executed on an exchange. [http://www.cftc.gov/opa/glossary/opaglossary b.htm Glossary, US Commodity Futures Trading … Wikipedia
Consolidator — An airline consolidator, also known as a bucketshop, is a business that buys tickets in bulk (at deep discounts but with many restrictions) from airlines and resells them to travel agencies. Consolidators are wholesalers and are prohibited (by… … Wikipedia
The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly — is a poem in book one of James Joyce s novel Finnegans Wake (pages 44.24 to 47.32), where the protagonist H.C.E. has been brought low by a rumor which begins to spread across Dublin, apparently concerning a sexual trespass involving two girls in… … Wikipedia
bucket — Synonyms and related words: argosy, bail, bark, barrel, be caught short, be short, belong, boat, bottom, bucketshop, calaboose, can, clink, cooler, craft, cup, decant, deposit margin, dip, dish, dish out, dish up, fly, fork, go long, hasten,… … Moby Thesaurus
hold on — Synonyms and related words: abide, adhere, adhere to, agglomerate, aim, aim at, await, be caught short, be short, bear up, belong, bend, bide, bide the issue, bite, bucket, bucketshop, bunch, carry on, cease not, clasp, cleave, cleave to, clench … Moby Thesaurus
make a killing — Synonyms and related words: be caught short, be short, bear the palm, belong, break the bank, bucket, bucketshop, capitalize on, capture, carry, carry away, carry it, carry off, carry the day, cash in on, clean up, clear, coin money, come out… … Moby Thesaurus
operate — Synonyms and related words: act, angle, be caught short, be effective, be in action, be responsible for, be short, behave, belong, brew, bucket, bucketshop, cabal, carry on, carry out, carry through, chart a course, collude, complot, concoct,… … Moby Thesaurus
play the market — Synonyms and related words: be caught short, be short, belong, bucket, bucketshop, deposit margin, go long, hold on, make a killing, make a scoop, margin up, miss the market, operate, overstay the market, plunge, pyramid, scalp, scoop the market … Moby Thesaurus
plunge — Synonyms and related words: abate, ablate, advance, agiotage, ante, ante up, arbitrage, ascend, back, back up, bate, be caught short, be eaten away, be short, beat down, belong, bet, bet on, blunder, boil, break, bucket, bucketshop, budge, bundle … Moby Thesaurus
