gold fever

1. 1.

   greed and the contagious excitement of a gold rush

   Broaderfever

Questions about gold fever

What does gold fever mean?

gold fever means "greed and the contagious excitement of a gold rush".

Is gold fever a common word?

gold fever is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.