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- noun Plural form of
carpetbag .
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Examples
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What do you think these folks bring over in their "carpetbags"?
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As a boy, he regularly watched the steamboats threshing into view, offloading knots of travel-worn passengers whose dreams were bundled, along with their belongings, into a few threadbare carpetbags.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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From rail to rail the great deck was packed with gear and people, all shadowy under the flares like one of those Dutch night paintings: here a couple of darkies crooning softly as they squatted in the scuppers, there a couple of drummers comparing carpetbags, yonder some rivermen lounging at the gangway and telling stretchers-but they were just the few.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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They continued being swept along by the crowd, climbing over the bodies of dead animals and abandoned carpetbags, steering clear of wandering horses and wheelbarrows still filled with belongings.
Firestorm! Joan Hiatt Harlow 2010
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As a boy, he regularly watched the steamboats threshing into view, offloading knots of travel-worn passengers whose dreams were bundled, along with their belongings, into a few threadbare carpetbags.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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With a spoonful of sugar, P.L. Travers transported children to a world of magic carpetbags and sidewalk-chalk paintings.
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"The political act of carpetbagging is not only claiming residency within political boundries but also how much outside money you pack within your carpetbags".
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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With a spoonful of sugar, P.L. Travers transported children to a world of magic carpetbags and sidewalk-chalk paintings.
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She and her husband apparently have some property in the area, and Prescott seems to have become a popular place for Republicans to bring their carpetbags to.
Archive 2005-11-01 2005
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To my amazement her carpetbags of cacti were still hooked over her arms, and I made sure to dodge the needles poking through the cloth.
Fleur De Leigh’s Life of Crime Diane Leslie 1999
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