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Gold Coast
nickname- a high-rise, high-rent district on Lakeshore Drive bordering Lake Michigan in northern Chicago, Illinois US
- Smooth adventurers set up swank apartments on the chi chi North Side Gold Coast[.] — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Chicago Confidential, p. z, 1950
- This is the Gold Coast. This the beautiful woman, Chicago. — Willard Motley, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 167, 1958
- Behind me, the outline of the wealthy Gold Coast: luxurious apartments glistening goldenly in the sun[.] — John Rechy, City of Night, p. 293, 1963
- Alex lived on the Gold Coast of Chicago, and the night I drove out there the police stopped me three times along the way. — Dick Gregory, Nigger, p. 145, 1964
- And there were quite a few whites from Chicago’s gold coast soaking up the rich nigger atmosphere. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Trick Baby, p. 193, 1969
- I found the Gold Coast lifestyle incredible. — Odie Hawkins, Scars and Memories, p. 34, 1987
- — Laurence Urdang, Names and Nicknames of Places and Things, p. 109, 1987
- It was one of the boundary lines of the old Gold Coast. — Herbert Huncke, Guilty of Everything, p. 28, 1990
- an area in Harlem, New York, where police bribes are common and lucrative US
- At the time of the investigation, certain precincts in Harlem, for instance, comprised what police officers called “the Gold Coast” because they contained so many payoff-prone activities[.] — The Knapp Commission Report on Police Corruption, p. 67, 1972
- the Atlantic coast of South Florida US
- Money is cheap on the Gold Coast, and there is a lot of it floating around. — Hunter S. Thompson, Songs of the Doomed, p. 193, 1983
- He’s got the entire Gold Coast terrified, your venerable newspaper included. — Carl Hiaasen, Tourist Season, p. 191, 1986
- a stretch along the east coast of Queensland, Australia, noted for extraordinarily good surfing AUSTRALIA
- — Trevor Cralle, The Surfin’ary, p. 46, 1991
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