Carpetbagger

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Carpetbagger \Car"pet*bag`ger\, n.
     An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man
     seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern
     part of the United States after the Civil War (1865). [U. S.]
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  carpetbagger
       n : an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously;
           "after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north
           tried to take over the south"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  25 Moby Thesaurus words for "carpetbagger":
     bunco artist, bunco steerer, cardsharp, cardsharper, con artist,
     con man, confidence man, crimp, horse coper, horse trader, jackleg,
     land pirate, land shark, land-grabber, mortgage shark, pettifogger,
     pitchman, shark, sharp, sharper, sharpie, shortchanger, shyster,
     slicker, spieler