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noun, adjective, verb, -bagged, -bagging.
noun a traveling bag made of carpet.
△Ex. Our dozen trunks and half-dozen carpetbags, being already packed and labelled (Hawthorne).
adj. (U.S.) of or having to do with the practices of a carpetbagger.
△Ex. a carpetbag reformer.
v.i. (U.S.) to travel or act as or resemble a carpetbagger.
△Ex. Mr. McDuffie carpetbagged from somewhere down into Alabama (Congressional Record).