gold rush

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gold rush - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  gold rush
      n 1: a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden
           opportunity to make money); "the demand for testing has
           created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where
           boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line"
           [syn: boom, bonanza, gold rush, gravy, godsend,
           manna from heaven, windfall, bunce]
      2: a large migration of people to a newly discovered gold field