gold digging

American  

noun

1. the work of digging for gold.

2. gold diggings, a region where digging or seeking for gold, especially by placer mining, is carried on.

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Etymology

Origin of gold digging

First recorded in 1795–1805

Example Sentences

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gold digging

Xie, who plays gold digging opera star Kitty Pong, told reporters.

From Reuters ● Aug. 21, 2018

"The financial and emotional support Davis received from her second husband, Jeff, is the type of support most people in committed relationships expect from their partners, and hardly counts as gold digging," she writes.

From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2014

But it’s not the first time he’s struck gold digging through old political videos.

From Time ● Dec. 14, 2011

Kanye West's roller-coaster of tweets: First he made that gold digging abortion comment, and then he tweeted a pic of the stuff he handed over at airport security.

From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2011

The question of cultivating tea in California has been seriously discussed, and will no doubt be gone into when the gold digging mania has a little subsided.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.