gold fever

Noun

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Noun (1)

  1. greed and the contagious excitement of a gold rushType of fever
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Gold fever

a popular mania for gold hunting.

From the entry Gold.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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