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☆ carpet·bagger (-bag′ər)
noun
- any of the Northern politicians or adventurers who went South to take advantage of unsettled conditions after the Civil War: contemptuous term with reference to the luggage they used in traveling light
- any politician, promoter, etc. from the outside whose influence is resented
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