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Definition of: carpetbagger
(kär′pit·bag′ər) noun
A person traveling with all his possessions in a carpet-bag: said originally of unscrupulous itinerant bankers of the West; later, of political or profit–seeking adventurers who infested the South after the Civil War. Compare SCALAWAG.
—car′pet·bag′ger·y, car′pet·bag′gism noun
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