Meaning of gold fever | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A feverish obsession with seeking gold ore; an era (figuratively an epidemic) during which this obsession grips a large number of people.
   countable, uncountable
2. An excessive craving for profit.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable

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Examples

“He caught a real bad case of the gold fever that was going around at the time.”

“That was during the gold fever, when strangers descended on the town and all the shovels were plum sold out at the general store.”

“It appears that a compositor had been engaged for the Northern Territory Times, and for a considerable time the editor seems to have led a comparatively unruffled existence; till in an evil hour the compositor was smitten with gold fever, and struck work.”

“Johns worked with the gold-fever in his veins and urged the camels on.”

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