Definitions for carpetbaggers

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carpetbaggers car·pet·bag·ger

Spelling: [kahr-pit-bag-er]

IPA: /ˈkɑr pɪtˌbæg ər/

Carpetbaggers is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 26 points.

You can make 1134 anagrams from letters in carpetbaggers (aabceeggprrst).

Definitions for carpetbaggers

noun

1. U.S. History. a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War and became active in Republican politics, especially so as to profiteer from the unsettled social and political conditions of the area during Reconstruction.
2. a politician who takes up residence in a place and runs for office without having strong ties to the area.
3. any opportunistic or exploitive outsider:

Origin of carpetbaggers

1865-70, Americanism; carpetbag + -er¹; so called because they came South carrying their belongings in carpetbags

Examples for carpetbaggers

And you had the carpetbaggers and all that, but as occupations go, it wasn't so brutal.

He scared de Yankees and carpetbaggers and all sech folks as dem away from our country.

There were a few thousand carpetbaggers in each State, with, at first, a much larger number of scalawags.

The other Federal departments were in similar difficulties, and at last women and "carpetbaggers" were appointed.

Generally the blacks showed no desire for mixed schools unless urged to it by the carpetbaggers.

Joe, soon after this, decided to stay in the carpetbaggers' city and take the agency of a large insurance company.

Neither were all the class designated as carpetbaggers dishonourable men.

City and county taxes, where carpetbaggers were in control, increased in the same way.

carpetbaggers already in situ to cash in on the wasted and exhausted city.

Of the carpetbaggers half were personally honest, but all were unscrupulous in politics.'