piggyback

piggyback
/pig"ee bak'/, adv.
1. on the back or shoulders: The little girl rode piggyback on her father.
adj.
2. astride the back or shoulders: a piggyback ride.
3. sharing commercial time, space, etc.: piggyback advertising.
4. carryable or attachable: a piggyback turbine unit.
5. added or tacked on; supplementary: a piggyback clause.
6. noting or pertaining to the carrying of one vehicle or the like by another, as the carrying of loaded truck trailers on flatcars.
v.t.
7. to attach or ally to as or as if a part of the same thing: to piggyback human rights agreements with foreign aid.
8. to carry (somebody) on the back or shoulders.
9. to carry (truck trailers) by railroad on flatcars.
10. Radio and Television Slang. to advertise (two or more products) in the same commercial.
v.i.
11. to be transported aboard or atop another carrier: The space shuttle piggybacked on the airplane.
12. to use, appropriate, or exploit the availability, services, or facilities of another: private clinics piggybacking on federal health-care facilities.
13. to carry truck trailers by railroad on flatcars.
n.
14. a house trailer designed to fit over a pickup truck.
15. a truck trailer carried on a flatcar.
16. anything that operates in connection with or as part of another.
Also, pickaback (for defs. 1, 2).
[1580-90; alter. of PICKABACK]

* * *


Universalium. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужно решить контрольную?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • piggyback — pig‧gy‧back [ˈpɪgibæk] verb 1. [intransitive, transitive] to use a situation that already exists in order to do or get what you want: piggyback on/​onto • Some pharmaceutical companies piggyback on existing brands by borrowing parts of their… …   Financial and business terms

  • piggyback — [pig′ē bak΄] adv. [alt. of PICKABACK] 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 adj. 1. on the shoulders or …   English World dictionary

  • Piggyback — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Piggybacking es un término referido al acceso a una red inalámbrica de internet con tu propio ordenador dentro de la red de otra conexión inalámbrica, sin el permiso o el conocimiento explícito de suscriptor. Es una… …   Wikipedia Español

  • piggyback — ► NOUN ▪ a ride on someone s back and shoulders. ► ADVERB ▪ on the back and shoulders of another person. ► VERB ▪ carry by or as if by means of a piggyback …   English terms dictionary

  • piggyback — 1838, probably a folk etymology alteration of pick pack (1560s), which perhaps is from pick, a dialectal variant of PITCH (Cf. pitch) (v.) …   Etymology dictionary

  • piggyback — To move a single tractor trailer onto a special rail flatcar. (Also called trailer on flatcar service) …   Glossary of postal terms

  • piggyback — I UK [ˈpɪɡɪˌbæk] / US noun [countable] Word forms piggyback : singular piggyback plural piggybacks if you give someone a piggyback, you carry them on your back with your arms supporting their legs Derived words: piggyback UK / US adjective a… …   English dictionary

  • piggyback — pig|gy|back1 [ˈpıgibæk] n also piggyback .ride if you give someone, especially a child, a piggyback, you carry them high on your shoulders, supporting them with your hands under their legs >piggyback adv piggyback 2 piggyback2 v [i]informal to …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • piggyback — [[t]pɪ̱gibæk[/t]] piggybacks, piggybacking, piggybacked also piggy back 1) N COUNT If you give someone a piggyback, you carry them high on your back, supporting them under their knees. They give each other piggy back rides. ADV: ADV after v… …   English dictionary

  • piggyback — pig•gy•back [[t]ˈpɪg iˌbæk[/t]] adv. 1) on the back or shoulders: The child rode piggyback on her father[/ex] 2) astride the back or shoulders: a piggyback ride[/ex] 3) cvb attached to, carried on, or allied with something else: a piggyback… …   From formal English to slang

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”