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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who digs for or mines gold.

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Examples

  • Meanwhile, she is his "accuser," reduced to a type: a "hotel maid" or a "college student," and thus is set up to be caricatured as a gold-digger, or a vindictive woman, someone with a clear motive to accuse an innocent man of a serious felony.

    Jackson Katz: DSK's Alleged Victim Should Not Be Called His "Accuser" Jackson Katz 2011

  • Meanwhile, she is his "accuser," reduced to a type: a "hotel maid" or a "college student," and thus is set up to be caricatured as a gold-digger, or a vindictive woman, someone with a clear motive to accuse an innocent man of a serious felony.

    Jackson Katz: DSK's Alleged Victim Should Not Be Called His "Accuser" Jackson Katz 2011

  • We haven't seen his daughter this entire season (have we?) and he's married to a young gold-digger who spends his money and, if he loses enough through this, may leave him, while simultaneously trying to sleep with Joan, whom he recently got pregnant.

    Samantha Zalaznick: Mad Men Recap: Welcome to My World Samantha Zalaznick 2010

  • Meanwhile, she is his "accuser," reduced to a type: a "hotel maid" or a "college student," and thus is set up to be caricatured as a gold-digger, or a vindictive woman, someone with a clear motive to accuse an innocent man of a serious felony.

    Jackson Katz: DSK's Alleged Victim Should Not Be Called His "Accuser" Jackson Katz 2011

  • We haven't seen his daughter this entire season (have we?) and he's married to a young gold-digger who spends his money and, if he loses enough through this, may leave him, while simultaneously trying to sleep with Joan, whom he recently got pregnant.

    Samantha Zalaznick: Mad Men Recap: Welcome to My World Samantha Zalaznick 2010

  • We haven't seen his daughter this entire season (have we?) and he's married to a young gold-digger who spends his money and, if he loses enough through this, may leave him, while simultaneously trying to sleep with Joan, whom he recently got pregnant.

    Samantha Zalaznick: Mad Men Recap: Welcome to My World Samantha Zalaznick 2010

  • It happens that the antiquities collector is also seeking Jason's Golden Fleece for an avaricious gold-digger named Sand Saref (played by the fetching Seychelle Gabrielle in flashback and by the vampier Eva Mendes in the present), who also happens to be the Spirit's teen heartthrob.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • It happens that the antiquities collector is also seeking Jason's Golden Fleece for an avaricious gold-digger named Sand Saref (played by the fetching Seychelle Gabrielle in flashback and by the vampier Eva Mendes in the present), who also happens to be the Spirit's teen heartthrob.

    Movie Review: The Spirit 2009

  • McGuinness described Cetin as "controlling" and a "gold-digger" and claimed that he had been keen on acquiring the property the McGuinness family owned on the Turkish Aegean.

    Turkey murders: father flies out to comfort daughter in wake of killings 2011

  • Mixed in with the vitriol levelled by the press and its readers at Mills when their marriage ended was an element of told-you-so directed at Sir Paul himself, a sort of collective satisfaction in characterising them as a rich and foolish old man duped and deluded by a conniving gold-digger, one of the oldest stories in the book.

    Sir Paul, you're a credit to your love songs | Stephanie Merritt 2011

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