A stock broking firm which takes small orders from clients and takes them on its own account rather than actually transmitting them to the market. Prevalent in the US 1870s to 1920s; often setup as shop-fronts in the 1920s
a legal services firm selling heavily discounted legal services and documents made in large volume from boilerplate text and clauses, sometimes as a white labelled loss leader
cheap saloon in the past that sold liquor in buckets; unstable and unethical brokerage firm; (Bitish Slang) travel agency that sells cheap air tickets; broker who practices bucketing