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gold-fever

gold-fever is the alternative form of gold fever.

Meaning of gold fever

Noun

gold fever (countable and uncountable, plural gold fevers)

  1. A feverish obsession with seeking gold ore; an era (figuratively an epidemic) during which this obsession grips a large number of people.
    • He caught a real bad case of the gold fever that was going around at the time.
  2. (figuratively) An excessive craving for profit.

Forms of gold-fever

pluralgold-fevers

Questions about gold-fever

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

Words near gold-fever in the dictionary

  1. gold-dropper
  2. gold-droppers
  3. gold-dug
  4. gold-dust
  5. gold-dusty
  6. gold-fever
  7. gold-fevers
  8. gold-field
  9. gold-filled
  10. gold-film
  11. gold-film glass

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