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Definition: Carpetbagger |
CarpetbaggerNoun1. An outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously; "after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deceiver | Liar; (lie; ); story-teller, perjurer, false witness, menteur a triple etage, Scapin; bunko steerer, carpetbagger, capper, faker, fraud, four flusher, horse coper, ringer, spieler, straw bidder. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
carpetbagger | 12 |
can carpetbagger give picture | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "carpetbagger"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Albanian | spekulator (profiteer, speculator, spiv), politikan (politician, politico), përfitues (assignee, scrounger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Arabic | المستفيد (beneficiary, grantee, payee, recipient). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مسافرخورجین دار, تازه بدوران رسیده وفاسد. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | profiteurs. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | ψευτοπολιτικόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pengembara (errant, gadabout, nomad, ramble, vagabond, vagrant, voyager, wanderer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | profittatore politico. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arpetbaggercay aventureiro político. (various references) politisk lycksökare. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "carpetbagger": carpetbaggeries, carpetbaggers, carpetbaggery. (additional references) | |
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"Carpetbagger" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: carpetbager, carpetlagger. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "carpetbagger" (pronounced kÄ"rputba'ger) |
| 4 | -b a' g er | sandbagger. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-e-e-g-g-p-r-r-t" | |
-3 letters: carpetbag. | |
-4 letters: acerbate, becarpet, braggart, recarpet. | |
-5 letters: abreact, acerate, acerber, acreage, barrage, bearcat, bragger, cabaret, caperer, cartage, caterer, cerebra, garbage, gerbera, greater, parerga, pearter, prerace, rebater, recrate, regrate, retrace, taperer, terrace. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-e-e-g-g-p-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: carpetbaggers, carpetbaggery. | |
+3 letters: carpetbaggeries. | |
| 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 67 65 72 |
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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 01100111 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a r p e t b a g g e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0072 0070 0065 0074 0062 0061 0067 0067 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)376784827186686773737184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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