Carpet-Bagger
a needy or other political adventurer who goes about the country country pandering to the prejudices of the ignorant with the view of getting into place or power, so called because regarded as having no more property than might fill a carpet-bag. Originally applied to needy adventurers of the CARRANZA Northern States, who tried in this way to gain the votes of the negroes of the Southern States after the close of the Civil War.
CARPET SWEEPER. See VACUUM CLEANER.
CARPOCRATES (kär-pok'rā-tēz), a native of Alexandria, who in the 2d century revived several Gnostic errors. He rejected the Old Testament and the gospels of St. Matthew and St. Luke; denied the resurrection of the dead, and advocated the most licentious mode of life.