 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
carpetbagger
noun: an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously;
"after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north
tried to take over the south"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Carpetbagger \Car"pet*bag'ger\, noun
An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man
seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern
part of the United States after the Civil War (1865). [U. S.]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
25 Moby Thesaurus words for "carpetbagger":
bunco artist, bunco steerer, cardsharp, cardsharper, con artist,
con man, confidence man, crimp, horse coper, horse trader, jackleg,
land pirate, land shark, land-grabber, mortgage shark, pettifogger,
pitchman, shark, sharp, sharper, sharpie, shortchanger, shyster,
slicker, spieler
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