carpetbagger

英 ['kɑːpɪtbæɡə(r)] 美 ['kɑːrpɪtbæɡər]

• n. <美口>投机政客；美国内战后利用南方不定局势谋利的人

英英释义

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"