Usually means: Bag made from old carpets.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word carpetbag:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. carpetbag: Merriam-Webster
  2. carpetbag: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. carpetbag: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. carpetbag: Collins English Dictionary
  5. carpetbag: Vocabulary.com
  6. carpetbag: Wordnik
  7. carpetbag: Wiktionary
  8. carpetbag: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. carpetbag: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. carpetbag: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Carpetbag, carpetbag: Dictionary.com
  12. Carpetbag: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Carpetbag: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. carpetbag: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. carpetbag: Rhymezone
  16. Carpetbag: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. carpetbag: FreeDictionary.org
  18. carpetbag: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. carpetbag: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. carpetbag: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. carpetbag: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See carpetbagged as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A traveling bag made from scraps of carpet and widely used in the United States (and elsewhere) in the 19ᵗʰ century.
verb:  (chiefly US) 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.
adjective:  (chiefly US) Having the characteristics of carpetbaggers.

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