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