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carpet bag

Definition of carpet bag

noun

  • a travelling bag of a kind originally made of carpet-like material.

verb

  • (carpet-bag) [no object] informal act as a carpetbagger: (as adjective carpet-bagging)he’s the carpet-bagging king

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