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say it: KAHR-puht-bag-ur
carpetbagger is a noun meaning "an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously". It is pronounced /ˈkɑɹpətˌbæɡɚ/ — KAHR-puht-bag-ur. It carries one recorded sense.
an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously
“after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for carpetbagger come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.