Definitions for: Carpetbagger

[n] an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously; "after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south"

Webster (1913) Definition: Car"pet*bag`ger, n.
An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man
seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern
part of the United States after the Civil War (1865)

See Also: opportunist, self-seeker