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UK
/pˈɪɡɪbˌæk/
]
[ US /ˈpɪɡiˌbæk/ ]
[ US /ˈpɪɡiˌbæk/ ]
VERB
-
support on the back and shoulders
He piggybacked her child so she could see the show - ride on someone's shoulders or back
-
bring into alignment with
an amendment to piggyback the current law - haul truck trailers loaded with commodities on railroad cars
- haul by railroad car
ADVERB
-
on the back or shoulder or astraddle on the hip
she carried her child piggyback -
on a railroad flatcar
the trailer rode piggyback across the country
NOUN
- the act of carrying something piggyback
How To Use piggyback In A Sentence
- I'm not saying I believe in curses, but I wouldn't want my mission to be the one they choose to piggyback Lightsail-1 on. Solar sails to take flight - Boing Boing
- Desperate copywriters use the ‘in the tradition of’ device, piggybacking on another writer's fame.
- He lifted me up on his back and gave me a piggyback ride downstairs.
- Pet cheap plymouth hotels are disenchanted to refrigeration the medroxyprogesterone for pet phlogopite as the ingratitude of noncompliant for a pet are piggyback agamogenetic than june padding. Rational Review
- He was sitting on a picnic bench, leaning forward while Jane was grabbing on for a piggyback ride.
- They poke and slap at one another, while Victoria jumps on Sabrina for a piggyback ride.
- He piggybacked her child so she could see the show
- Then a physician at Oxford University offered to include him in a test of a new piggyback device - an "axial flow pump" that pushes blood in a continuous stream (no pulse) through the heart's left ventricle and out into the body.
- Ground floor and blue prints then,' and then even more playfully, `or I could maybe give you a piggyback. FALLEN WOMEN
- Notably, the company checked the Trujillos 'time sheets against the security gate log of entries and exits, ignoring the fact that workers often "piggybacked" -- failed to show their badges at the gate, following after someone who had -- and had done so for years without comment by the company. Joan Williams: Health Care? Let's Do It for Charlie
