'Carpetbagger' definitions:
Definition of 'carpetbagger'
From: WordNet
noun
An outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously; "after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south"
Definition of 'Carpetbagger'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'carpetbagger'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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