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gold-digger

gold-digger is the alternative form of gold digger.

Meaning of gold digger

Noun

gold digger (plural gold diggers)

  1. (literally) Someone who digs or mines for gold.
    Synonyms:
    gold miner
  2. (derogatory, figuratively) A person, especially a woman, who cultivates a personal relationship with someone in order to attain wealth.
    • If she sends her son for the money she is a gold digger, and if she sends her daughter, she is a gold digger teaching her daughter how to be a gold digger—two offenses for the price of one. Whether it is the misinterpretation of the hustle, recognizing the game, or asking for legitimate funds for...2009, Rajen Persaud, Why Black Men Love White Women, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 189
    Synonyms:
    fortune hunter

Forms of gold-digger

pluralgold-diggers

Questions about gold-digger

What is gold-digger the alternative form of?
Gold-digger is the alternative form of gold digger.

Words near gold-digger in the dictionary

  1. gold-copper ores
  2. gold-crested wren
  3. gold-crested wrens
  4. gold-cups
  5. gold-dig
  6. gold-digger
  7. gold-diggers
  8. gold-digging
  9. gold-diggings
  10. gold-digs
  11. gold-dredger

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