Word Study
piggyback
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun piggyback has 1 sense
Verb piggyback has 5 senses
- piggyback(v = verb.motion) Array - ride on someone's shoulders or back; Array is one way to ride
- piggyback(v = verb.contact) Array - haul truck trailers loaded with commodities on railroad cars; Array is one way to haul
- piggyback(v = verb.contact) Array - haul by railroad car; Array is one way to haul
- piggyback(v = verb.contact) Array - support on the back and shoulders; "He piggybacked her child so she could see the show" is one way to bear, carry, hold
- piggyback(v = verb.change) Array - bring into alignment with; "an amendment to piggyback the current law" is one way to alter, change, modify
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Adverbial piggyback has 2 senses
- piggyback(r = adv.all) pickaback, pig-a-back - on a railroad flatcar; "the trailer rode piggyback across the country"
- piggyback(r = adv.all) pickaback, pig-a-back - on the back or shoulder or astraddle on the hip; "she carried her child piggyback"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
piggyback, n. & adv. (also pickaback)
--n. a ride on the back and shoulders of another person.
--adv.
1 on the back and shoulders of another person.
2 on the back or top of a larger object.
--n. a ride on the back and shoulders of another person.
--adv.
1 on the back and shoulders of another person.
2 on the back or top of a larger object.
Etymology
16th c.: orig. unkn.
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