gold digger
noun
a person who seeks or digs for gold in a gold field.
gold diggers
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pluralof gold digger.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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"The game isn't trying to say that all women are gold diggers... I don't find it targeting either gender," says 31-year-old Zhuang Mengsheng, who used a pseudonym to speak to the BBC.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2025
Then the pressure from friends and family and neighbors and gold diggers will become impossible.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 16, 2021
Amateur sleuths, genealogists and gold diggers joined the quest—as did con artists, resulting in the sensational “discovery,” in 1937, of a large stone about 60 miles to the west of Roanoke Island.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2018
Because the sheltered and mannerless Shan is nothing like the gold diggers surrounding Liu, he quickly becomes smitten.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2016
Gates compared the Internet to the gold rush, the idea being that more money was made selling Levi’s, picks, shovels, and hotel rooms to the gold diggers than from digging up gold from the earth.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
