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
A millionaire joins the Navy to escape gold diggers but soon meets yet another one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2021
He and his lawyers and agents have suggested that many of the accusers were gold diggers seeking money or fame.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 10, 2019
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
