Welcome to English in a Minute. Gold is a valuable material. We can dig gold out of mountains and get rich. So is that what gold digger means?
Bob seems really upset these days.
That's understandable. He lost a lot of money in the stock market. How did that happen?
Bob needed a lot of money fast. Or his wife said she was going to leave him.
Wow, she sounds like a real gold digger.
In the mid 1800s, lots of people went to the American West to dig for newly found gold. They were called gold diggers.
But these days, a gold digger is a person who chooses their relationships based on money, not love.