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gold bug

  • a variation of goldbug.
    goldbug
    noun
    a person, especially an economist or politician, who supports the gold standard.

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So I’ll continue to be a gold bug.

From MarketWatch Oct. 24, 2025

Panning or sluicing for shiny flakes in a stream near Blewett Pass — or anywhere the gold bug takes you — can be rewarding in more ways than one.

From Seattle Times Aug. 9, 2017

Mr. Bogle admitted that he was almost bitten by the gold bug recently.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2011

At the time, everyone knew someone who had gone broke betting on soybeans, or a gold bug who hoarded coins against catastrophe, he says.

From BusinessWeek Jul. 22, 2010

But like other better people before me, I had been bitten by the gold bug, and now was forced to take the consequences.

From The Tale of Three Lions by Henry Rider Haggard

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