Usually means: Northerner exploiting South post-Civil War.
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  1. carpetbagger: Merriam-Webster
  2. carpetbagger: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. carpetbagger: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. carpetbagger: Collins English Dictionary
  5. carpetbagger: Vocabulary.com
  6. Carpetbagger, carpetbagger: Wordnik
  7. carpetbagger: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. carpetbagger: Wiktionary
  9. carpetbagger: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. carpetbagger: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. carpetbagger: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Carpetbagger, carpetbagger: Dictionary.com
  13. Carpetbagger (disambiguation), Carpetbagger: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Carpetbagger: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. carpetbagger: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. carpetbagger: Rhymezone
  17. Carpetbagger: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. carpetbagger: FreeDictionary.org
  19. carpetbagger: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. carpetbagger: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. carpetbagger: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. carpetbagger: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. carpetbagger: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Carpetbagger (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. carpetbagger: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (politics, history, chiefly US, offensive) A migrant from the Northern to the Southern States after the American Civil War of 1861–5, especially one who went South to gain political influence.
noun:  (derogatory, by extension) One who comes to a place or organisation with which they have no previous connection with the sole or primary aim of personal gain, especially political or financial gain.

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