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piggyback

adverb

  1. on the shoulders or back: to carry a child piggyback
  2. by a piggyback transportation system
  3. so as to be fixed to, carried by, connected with, or dependent on something else

adjective

  1. on the shoulders or back: to give a child a piggyback ride
  2. of a transportation system in which truck trailers are carried on flatcars
  3. fixed to, carried by, connected with, or dependent on something else: a local piggyback tax on top of the state sales tax

transitive verb

  1. to carry or transport piggyback
  2. 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

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