Dictionary Entry
carpetbagger
carpetbagger is a 12-letter English word with 2 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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). Face value is 20 in Scrabble and 25 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
12 letters · Scrabble 20 · Words With Friends 25 · 2 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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).
- 2noun
an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously
"after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south"
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