carpetbag
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A traveling bag made from scraps of carpet and widely used in the United States (and…
A traveling bag made from scraps of carpet and widely used in the United States (and elsewhere) in the 19ᵗʰ century.
- Pen jumped out of the carriage then, his carpet-bag in hand, and briskly determined to face his fortune.
To come to a place or organisation with which one has no previous connection with the…
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.
- 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.
Having the characteristics of carpetbaggers.
- carpetbag travels
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for carpetbag. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA