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