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English to English noun
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an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously |  | Example: after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south
source: wordnet30
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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). | | source: webster1913
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