- (disapproving)
a politician who tries to be elected in an area where he or she is not known and is therefore not welcome （在知名度不高的地区参加竞选因而不受当地欢迎的）外来政客 a person from the northern states of the US who went to the South after the Civil War in order to make money or get political power （美国内战后去南方）投机钻营的北方人
Word Originmid 19th cent.: originally applied to people from the northern states of the US who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.