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Gold rush

noun

A sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money). Synonyms: bonanza, boom, bunce, godsend, gravy, manna from heaven, windfall.

A large migration of people to a newly discovered gold field.

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"Gold rush" Quotes from Famous Books

... Mount Finlay and the Sheep Mountains. It's in the northern part of British Columbia, with its upper waters reaching into the Yukon. A wild country. A country less known than it was sixty years ago, when there was a gold rush up over the old telegraph trail. Tavish has told me a lot about it. A queer man—this Tavish. We hit his cabin on our ...

— The Courage of Marge O'Doone • James Oliver Curwood

... my sister and her husband grubstaked me into the Klondike. It was the first gold rush into that region, the early fall rush of 1897. I was twenty-one years old, and in splendid physical condition. I remember, at the end of the twenty-eight-mile portage across Chilcoot from Dyea Beach to Lake Linderman, I was packing up with the Indians and out-packing many an Indian. The ...

— John Barleycorn • Jack London

Words linked to "Gold rush" : happening, occurrent, natural event, occurrence, migration