carpetbag
Americannoun
verb (used without object)
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to journey with little luggage.
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to act as a carpetbagger.
noun
Etymology
Origin of carpetbag
Example Sentences
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Whenever things grow desperate, Fogg pulls wads of cash from his carpetbag to pay captains to sail faster, to buy an elephant as jungle transport or, finally, to acquire and destroy an entire steamship.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2021
Some distance away, beyond the shade of the awning, a low white, with what I guessed to be all his possessions in a carpetbag, smoked tobacco.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 3, 2019
Re-reading it now from the misty vantage point of middle age, I hardly recognise the solitary figure who shouldered a carpetbag for 4,185km.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 6, 2019
So the new sequel, directed by Rob Marshall and starring Emily Blunt, carried a rather heavy carpetbag, you might say.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 12, 2018
The little boy ran and grabbed the shoemaker’s carpetbag.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
The PGA Tour punished players who joined, and its members spent months sniping at their carpetbagging competitors.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2023
The 2010-2013 series gave me what any carpetbagging reporter really needed: the attitude of the city, its texture, its walk and its talk.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 31, 2022
Why do voters respond positively to deeply rooted candidates and negatively to their carpetbagging counterparts?
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2022
He’s been an elected official for a little while, so it’s not like he’s a random doctor who’s carpetbagging in from New Jersey, right?
From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2022
I think she has found out about the carpetbagging.
From Andrew the Glad by Daviess, Maria Thompson
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