carpetbag
English
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Etymology
Noun
carpetbag (plural carpetbags)
- A traveling bag made from scraps of carpet and used primarily in the United States in the 19th century.
Derived terms
Translations
a type of bag
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Verb
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- (chiefly US) To come to a place or organisation with which one has no previous connection with the sole or primary aim of personal gain, especially political or financial gain.
- 2018 February 23, Jason Horowitz, “Italy’s ‘Five Star’ Grows Up Into a Real Party, Scandals and All”, in New York Times[1]:
- The Five Star Movement has long railed against carpetbagging, but for all of Ms. D’Alessandro’s efforts to seem of the place — talking about her childhood in Naples and showing the bar where she had her first date — she clearly isn’t.
Derived terms
Adjective
carpetbag (not comparable)
- (chiefly US) Having the characteristics of carpetbaggers.
- carpetbag travels
Further reading
carpet bag on Wikipedia.Wikipedia