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Definitions: Carpetbag |
CarpetbagAdjective1. Following the practices or characteristic of carpetbaggers; "carpetbag adventurers"; "a carpetbag government". Noun1. Traveling bag made of carpet; widely used in 19th century. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "carpetbag" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
carpetbag | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "carpetbag"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | hejbe (saddlebag). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | пътна чанта от плат за килими. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | cestovní kabela. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Reisetasche (bag, carpet bag, hold all, holdall, overnight bag, traveling bag, travelling bag, valise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | útitáska (portmanteau, valise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | borsa da viaggio (travelling bag). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arpetbagcay bolsa de viagem. (various references) саквояж (grip, gripsack, handbag, kit bag, valise). (various references) putnička torba (travelling bag). (various references) morral (bag, game bag, haversack, nosebag, pouch, satchel). (various references) resväska (suitcase, suit-case). (various references) саквояж (handbag, valise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "carpetbag": carpetbagger, carpetbaggeries, carpetbaggers, carpetbaggery, carpetbagging, carpetbags. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-e-g-p-r-t" | |
-2 letters: abreact, bearcat, cabaret, cartage. | |
-3 letters: abater, carate, carpet, parget, preact, ratbag. | |
-4 letters: abate, acerb, aceta, agape, agate, apace, apart, apter, areca, barge, becap, begat, brace, bract, caber, cager, caper, carat, caret, carte, cater, crape, crate, crept, epact, gaper, grace, grape, grate, great, pacer, pager, parae, parge, pater, peart, prate, rabat, react, reata, recap. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-e-g-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: carpetbags. | |
+3 letters: carpetbagger. | |
+4 letters: bacteriophage, bacteriophagy, carpetbaggers, carpetbaggery, carpetbagging. | |
+5 letters: bacteriophages, prefabricating. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 72 70 65 74 62 61 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .-. .--. . - -... .- --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110010 01110000 01100101 01110100 01100010 01100001 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a r p e t b a g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0072 0070 0065 0074 0062 0061 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)376784827186686773 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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