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CARPETBAGGER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does carpetbagger mean?
• CARPETBAGGER (noun)
The noun CARPETBAGGER has 1 sense:
1. an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously
Familiarity information: CARPETBAGGER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Context example:
after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south
Hypernyms ("carpetbagger" is a kind of...):
opportunist; self-seeker (a person who places expediency above principle)
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