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