(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.

(chiefly US) Having the characteristics of carpetbaggers.

A traveling bag made from scraps of carpet and widely used in the United States (and elsewhere) in the 19ᵗʰ century.

plural of carpetbag

simple past tense and past participle of carpetbag

present participle of carpetbag

Alternative form of carpetbaggism

A steak stuffed with oysters.

plural of carpetbag steak

(politics, history, chiefly US, offensive) A migrant from the Northern to the Southern States after the American Civil War of 1861–5, especially one who went South to gain political influence.