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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

bunco artist, bunco steerer, cardsharp, cardsharper, con artist, con man, confidence man, crimp, horse coper, horse trader, jackleg, land pirate, land shark, land-grabber, mortgage shark, pettifogger, pitchman, shark, sharp, sharper, sharpie, shortchanger, shyster, slicker, spieler

Dictionary Results for carpetbagger:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

carpetbagger
    n 1: an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously;
         "after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north tried
         to take over the south"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Carpetbagger \Car"pet*bag`ger\, n.
   An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man
   seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern
   part of the United States after the Civil War (1865). [U. S.]
   [1913 Webster]

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