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gold-digging

gold-digging adjective: occupying oneself as a gold-digger, cultivating a personal relationship to attain wealth. Also the simple past and past participle of gold-dig.

Adjective

gold-digging (not comparable)

  1. Occupying oneself as a gold-digger, cultivating a personal relationship to attain wealth.
    • Bitches be gold-diggin, lookin' for gold
      A bitch can't get a booger out of my nose2016 June 10, BlocBoy JB, “No Chorus, Pt. 5”, in Who Am I, 0:36–0:40

Noun

gold-digging (countable and uncountable, plural gold-diggings)

  1. (literally) The act of prospecting or excavating for gold.
  2. (figuratively) The behavior of a person, often a woman, who uses a relationship to gain wealth and material benefits.

Also used as

gold-digging is also the simple past and past participle of gold-dig.

Forms of gold-digging

Adjective
alternative formgolddigging
alternative formgold digging
Noun
pluralgold-diggings

Questions about gold-digging

What does gold-digging mean?
Gold-digging means occupying oneself as a gold-digger, cultivating a personal relationship to attain wealth.
What part of speech is gold-digging?
Gold-digging can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near gold-digging in the dictionary

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

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