piggyback
on the back or shoulders: The little girl rode her father piggyback.
astride the back or shoulders: a piggyback ride.
sharing commercial time, space, etc.: piggyback advertising.
carryable or attachable: a piggyback turbine unit.
added or tacked on; supplementary: a piggyback clause.
noting or pertaining to the carrying of one vehicle or the like by another, as the carrying of loaded truck trailers on flatcars.
to attach or ally to as or as if a part of the same thing: to piggyback human rights agreements with foreign aid.
to carry (somebody) on the back or shoulders.
to carry (truck trailers) by railroad on flatcars.
Radio and Television Slang. to advertise (two or more products) in the same commercial.
to be transported aboard or atop another carrier: The space shuttle piggybacked on the airplane.
to use, appropriate, or exploit the availability, services, or facilities of another: private clinics piggybacking on federal healthcare facilities.
to carry truck trailers by railroad on flatcars.
a house trailer designed to fit over a pickup truck.
a truck trailer carried on a flatcar.
anything that operates in connection with or as part of another.
Origin of piggyback
1- Also pickaback (for defs. 1, 2).
Words Nearby piggyback
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How to use piggyback in a sentence
We piggybacked off of that to create a communication channel to the sick, to help them get better faster.
From there, it wasn’t long before other users were piggybacking on the trend by duetting the whaling tune alongside Evans or debuting sea shanty performances of their own.
In These Tumultuous Times, Sea Shanty TikToks Have Suddenly Become a Port in the Storm | Megan McCluskey | January 13, 2021 | TimeWhich is all well and good for today, but Ferguson is impressed with where else robots, piggybacked on our digital infrastructure, can make a difference.
The four companies all have rides booked on future commercial lunar lander missions, and the agency is using this as a demonstration of what kinds of efficiencies it can realize by piggybacking on private industry for serving its needs.
NASA selects four companies for moon material collection as it seeks to set precedent on private sector outer space mining | Darrell Etherington | December 3, 2020 | TechCrunchI needed the stick to test whether my next step would be thigh-deep or merely ankle-deep, and to double-check my balance while piggybacking my kids across fast-flowing creeks.
Scientists Weigh in on the Great Trekking Pole Debate | Alex Hutchinson | October 23, 2020 | Outside Online
Apparently, goats in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, can ride humans piggyback.
Chubby Korean Baby Dance, Goat Riding Guy Riding Bike, and More Viral Videos | The Daily Beast Video | June 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThese trends piggyback on international drug market dynamics.
Heroin: America’s Silent Assassin | Dr. Anand Veeravagu, MD, Robert M. Lober, MD, PhD | February 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPray would ultimately come to believe Tareq was trying to “piggyback” off her Bravo show to get himself noticed.
But the piggyback Bandit keeps making bail and keeps finding new ways to commit his “crimes.”
Sherwin Shayegan, the Piggyback Bandit, Is the Bane of High School Games | Winston Ross | February 20, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThat led deputies to Tessier, who lived about a block away from where “Johnny” first offered the girls a piggyback ride.
Debra used to send me out to give the children piggyback rides, just to keep our Whuffie up while she was evicting the squatters.
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom | Cory DoctorowThey galloped the doughboys up and down the village streets in furious piggyback charges.
The A.E.F. | Heywood Brounpiggyback Service economies - These are economies, which provide predator economies with services.
After the Rain | Sam VakninAnketam, you could carry me piggyback, while Blejjo goes over to fetch my pole.
The Destroyers | Gordon Randall Garrett
British Dictionary definitions for piggyback
pickaback
/ (ˈpɪɡɪˌbæk) /
a ride on the back and shoulders of another person
a system whereby a vehicle, aircraft, etc, is transported for part of its journey on another vehicle, such as a flat railway wagon, another aircraft, etc
on the back and shoulders of another person
on or as an addition to something else
of or for a piggyback: a piggyback ride; piggyback lorry trains
of or relating to a type of heart transplant in which the transplanted heart functions in conjunction with the patient's own heart
to give (a person) a piggyback on one's back and shoulders
to transport (one vehicle) on another
(intr often foll by on) to exploit an existing resource, system, or product
(tr) to attach to or mount on (an existing piece of equipment or system)
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