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carpetbagging
  • s  presumptuously seeking success or a position in a new locality
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carotid
  • a  of or relating to either of the two major arteries supplying blood to the head and neck
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carousing
  • v  engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking
    They were out carousing last night
  • s  used of riotously drunken merrymaking
    carousing bands of drunken soldiers
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carpal
  • n  any of the eight small bones of the wrist of primates
  • a  of or relating to the wrist
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carpetbag
  • n  traveling bag made of carpet; widely used in 19th century
  • a  following the practices or characteristic of carpetbaggers
    carpetbag adventurers
    a carpetbag government
  • s  presumptuously seeking success or a position in a new locality
    a carpetbag stranger
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carpeted
  • v  form a carpet-like cover (over)
  • v  cover completely, as if with a carpet
    flowers carpeted the meadows
  • v  cover with a carpet
  • a  covered with or as if with carpeting or with carpeting as specified; often used in combination
    the carpeted hallway
    a flower-carpeted hillside
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