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gold-droppers

gold-droppers is the plural of gold-dropper.

Meaning of gold-dropper

Noun

gold-dropper (plural gold-droppers)

  1. (historical, slang) A con artist who operates a classic confidence trick involving the fraudster purposely dropping a supposedly valuable gold coin (or a fake purse of money) where a passerby would find it.

Questions about gold-droppers

What is gold-droppers the plural of?
Gold-droppers is the plural of gold-dropper.

Words near gold-droppers in the dictionary

  1. gold-digs
  2. gold-dredger
  3. gold-dredging
  4. gold-driver
  5. gold-dropper
  6. gold-droppers
  7. gold-dug
  8. gold-dust
  9. gold-dusty
  10. gold-fever
  11. gold-fevers

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