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Definition of "gold digger" []

  • Informal A woman who seeks money and expensive gifts from men. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "gold digger" in a sentence
  • "As the gold digger in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes—Hawks’s considerably reworked version of the Anita Loos play and musical—Marilyn consciously exploits the sex-bomb image that men, with their lascivious glances, have forced on her, and gets her revenge in spades ... or, rather, diamonds."
  • "The two hilarious husband-hunting comedies, too, tweak both myths by conflating the bad girl and the good girl—the sexy gold digger and the girl with a heart—into the one and only Marilyn."
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