carpetbagger
(noun)
noun
1. an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously
- after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south
Definition categories: person, opportunist
Sentences with carpetbagger as a noun:
- Though he lived and worked in Los Angeles for sixteen years, the candidate for Attorney General is no carpetbagger; he was born and raised in this state and graduated from the state university.
- He's just a carpetbagger who was surprised to find that Southerns are not like the cast of The Dukes of Hazzard or Deliverance.