Piggyback Definition
pĭgē-băk
piggy-back, piggybacked, piggybacking, piggybacks
adjective
On the shoulders or back.
To give a child a piggyback ride.
Webster's New World
Of a transportation system in which truck trailers are carried on flatcars.
Webster's New World
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.
American Heritage
Fixed to, carried by, connected with, or dependent on something else.
A local piggyback tax on top of the state sales tax.
Webster's New World
noun
piggybacks
The act of transporting piggyback.
American Heritage
verb
piggybacked, piggybacking
To carry or transport piggyback.
Webster's New World
To be placed or held in piggyback fashion.
Webster's New World
To cause to be aligned with an issue, for example, that is larger or more important.
American Heritage
To function as if carried on the back of another.
American Heritage
To place on or upon something in piggyback fashion.
Piggyback a new tax on the current one.
Webster's New World
adverb
On the shoulders or back.
To carry a child piggyback.
Webster's New World
By a piggyback transportation system.
Webster's New World
So as to be fixed to, carried by, connected with, or dependent on something else.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
- pig-a-back
- pickaback
Origin of Piggyback
Alteration of dialectal pig back alteration of pickaback, pickback, pick pack probably dialectal pick to throw (variant of pitch) back or pack
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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A corruption of pickaback, itself a corruption of pick-pack, like a pack.
From Wiktionary
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