carpetbagging

Variant of carpetbag

carpetbag definition

carpet·bag (-bag′)

noun

an old-fashioned type of traveling bag, made of carpeting

adjective

of or having to do with carpetbaggers

intransitive verb carpetbagged -·bagged′, carpetbagging -·bag′·ging

to act as a carpetbagger

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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