gold bug (English, noun)
expansion: gold bug (plural gold bugs)
Senses:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A person with a particularly great enthusiasm for investing in gold (the metal).
tags: informal
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A person who is opposed to fiat currency and supports a return to the gold standard.
tags: informal
glosses: A person who collects gold items.
tags: informal
glosses: A particularly great enthusiasm for gold — whether as an investment, a hoard, a collectible, or otherwise — portrayed figuratively as an arthropod that bites people and infects them, causing a mental illness.
tags: informal
Forms:
form: gold bugs
tags: plural
form: goldbug
tags: alternative