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Definition of Carpetbagger
1. 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
1. 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).
Definition of Carpetbagger
1. Noun. (politics history chiefly US) An immigrant from the Northern to the Southern States after the American Civil War of 1861–5, especially one who went South to gain political influence; hence, someone intervening in the politics of an area with which they are thought to have no real connection. ¹
2. Noun. (pejorative by extension) One who comes to a place or organisation with which they have no previous connection with the sole or primary aim of personal gain, especially political or financial gain. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Carpetbagger
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carpetbagger
Literary usage of Carpetbagger
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Half-hours in Southern History by John Lesslie Hall (1907)
"VIII The carpetbagger and the Scalawag: In the midst of this hurlyburly ...
The carpetbagger of 1865 was the lowest of his ilk, tie basest of his species. ..."
2. Recollections of a Rebel Reefer by James Morris Morgan (1917)
"CHAPTER XL Cotton-picking by moonlight — Swindled by a carpetbagger out of my hay
... General Dennis, a carpetbagger, superintendent of the penitentiary, ..."
3. A History of the United States Since the Civil War by Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer (1922)
"Another, a preacher, said in his church when he was asked to describe the difference
between a carpetbagger and a scalawag—"a carpetbagger is a man who come ..."
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