piggyback
The definition of a piggyback is a ride on someone's shoulders or back.
(noun)When you throw your arms around someone's neck and are carried on his shoulders and back, this is an example of a piggyback.
To piggyback is to carry or be carried on someone's back, or to use existing work or material as a basis for something you are doing.
(verb)- When you carry someone on your shoulders, this is an example of a time when you piggyback him.
- When you take existing research and build upon it, this is an example of a time when you piggyback onto existing research.
See piggyback in Webster's New World College Dictionary
adverb
- 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
Origin: alt. of pickaback
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
See piggyback in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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.
Origin:
Origin: Alteration of dialectal pig back
Origin: , alteration of pickaback, pickback, pick pack
Origin: : probably dialectal pick, to throw (variant of pitch2)
Origin: + back1
Origin: or pack1
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