bucketshop

'Your father and a man called Saunders have been running a bucketshop under the name of Vernon and Lawford.

The Explorer 1919

I should have thought that would have satisfied him, without getting locked up for being connected in a beastly bucketshop swindle. '

The Explorer 1919

'Do you know what a bucketshop is, Lucy?' asked Dick.

The Explorer 1919

He was unpleasantly reminded of making the acquaintance of Mr. Marigold over a bucketshop a few years ago with the result that he had vanished from the eye of his friends for eighteen months.

Okewood of the Secret Service Valentine Williams 1914

So I guessed the gent was a bucketshop tout who was tryin 'to interest Piddie in some kind of a deal.

Torchy Sewell Ford 1907

Piddle wa'n't goin 'to be any too sociable by dinner time that night,' less'n he'd hit up the bucketshop, which the chances was against.

Torchy Sewell Ford 1907

"Now if I could institute a real big affair in the shape of a bucketshop swindle, in which your father and I could play the principal parts and you become merely a subordinate, such as a typist or something -- what about that, eh?"

An Amiable Charlatan 1906

Despite his expert knowledge, however, he was slightly stumped, as the vernacular has it, when Abe Potash produced B. Sheitlis 'stock, for in all his bucketshop and curb experience he had never even heard of the Texas-Nevada Gold and Silver

Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures Montague Glass 1905

During the thirty odd years of his life he had been in turn stockboy, clothing salesman, bookmaker's clerk, faro dealer, poolroom cashier and, finally, bucketshop proprietor.

Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures Montague Glass 1905

The Texas-Nevada Gold and Silver Mining Corporation was a paper mine that had long since faded from the memory of every bucketshop manager he knew, and its stock was worth absolutely nothing.

Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures Montague Glass 1905