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say it: KAHR-puht-bag-ur
carpetbagger is a noun meaning "an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously". 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.