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Klondigger
[< Klondike + digger]
Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a person who took part in the Klondike gold rush.
Quotations
1900
Secondly, the Transcontinental railways began to compete for the privilege of carrying the would-be Klondigger to his port on the Pacific--a competition which led not only to the issue of millions of pamphlets, but also to a general cutting-down of rates.