on the shoulders or back: to carry a child piggyback
by a piggyback transportation system
so as to be fixed to, carried by, connected with, or dependent on something else
adjective
on the shoulders or back: to give a child a piggyback ride
of a transportation system in which truck trailers are carried on flatcars
fixed to, carried by, connected with, or dependent on something else: a local piggyback tax on top of the state sales tax
transitive verb
to carry or transport piggyback
to place on or upon in piggyback fashion: piggyback a new tax on the current one
intransitive verb
to be placed or held in piggyback fashion
See piggyback in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(pĭgˈē-băkˌ)
adverb & adj.
On the shoulders or back: ride piggyback; a piggyback ride.
By or relating to a method of transportation in which truck trailers are carried on trains, or cars on specially designed trucks.
In connection with something larger or more important: a tariff provision that came piggyback with the tax bill; a piggyback provision to a new piece of legislation.
To cause to be aligned with an issue, for example, that is larger or more important: “a $21.5-million federal grant to piggyback city and state subsidies”(New York).
verb, intransitive
To function as if carried on the back of another: “This reagent will piggyback onto an enzyme”(Seth Rolbein).