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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).

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  1. 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).
  2. n. an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously
  3. n:100 n. an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously