ノミ屋や

noun

bookmaker; bookie

Refers to an illegal or underground bookmaker, especially for horse racing or other gambling. The term comes from the image of a small-time operator (ノミ = flea).

• 彼かれは競けい馬ばのノミ屋やを営いとなんでいた。

  He ran an illegal bookmaking operation for horse racing.

noun

bucket shop; trader performing bucketing

In stock market context, a broker who takes the opposite side of a customer's trade instead of executing it on the market, or the shop itself. Related to ノミ行為.

See also: ノミ行為 (ノミこうい)

• その証しょう券けん会がい社しゃはノミ屋やとして摘てき発はつされた。

  That securities firm was exposed as a bucket shop.