The term emerged in the early 1900s, originally associated with chorus girls and sex workers. Rex Beach's 1911 book The Ne'er-Do-Well and Virginia Brooks' 1915 memoir My Battles with Vice Popularisation: Avery Hopwood's 1919 hit play The Gold Diggers cemented the term in mainstream vocabulary.

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