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Juvenile mode of travel
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piggyback
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 On somebody's back or shoulders. 2 Pertaining to transportation of goods where one transportation unit is carried on the back of something else. For example, a truck on a train. adv. On somebody's back or shoulders. v 1 (context transitive English) To ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1823, probably a folk etymology alteration of pick pack (1560s), which perhaps is from pick , a dialectal variant of pitch (v.1). As a verb from 1952.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Piggyback transportation refers to the transportation of goods where one transportation unit is carried on the back of something else. It is a specialised form of intermodal transportation and combined transport .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I had been dreaming of Cymbeline riding piggyback on my shoulders. ▪ More than 70 percent of the females at the lake reach the water with a male already riding piggyback .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adv. on a railroad flatcar; "the trailer rode piggyback across the country" [syn: pickaback , pig-a-back ] on the back or shoulder or astraddle on the hip; "she carried her child piggyback" [syn: pickaback , pig-a-back ] v. ride on someone's shoulders or ...
Usage examples of piggyback.
It had been contained in the minidisc, riding piggyback on the CyberNet data.
Watched by Amballa and her ever vigilant shrews, the four friends had to carry each Squidjee piggyback fashion down to the sand.
It piggybacks off existing wiring, but without causing a drop in power.
Alaric was old enough to know one face from another, he smiled at me, and held up his little arms for me to carry him piggyback and begged for rides on my horse.
Confederation's technical legerdemain in space had been recorded from a piggyback scout on one of the bulk carriers, a scout ridden by Lord Cams, with a pilot and a cameraman.
It’s sort of riding piggyback on whatever’s dampening the planet’s magnetic fields.
Blithely unaware that disaster was imminent, Carl reached for the IV line where he had the anesthetic agent piggybacked.
She was piggybacking a mutagen to a weakened form of avian influenza for the pigeon problem.
Discovery might not be able to correct for the off-centre of mass, now that it was carrying a thousand tons piggyback.
Your information was encoded and piggybacked on Centauran commercial message traffic before we left.
So he piggybacked the information through the diplomatic bag several days before the balloon went up and had it remailed to a private account in Nouveau Paris after the bag got here.
My sensors detect two fusion bombs, piggybacked onto a pair of guided missiles, fired directly toward my war hull.
Talking about old times in Australia when the wallabies hopped about underneath the branches and the koala bears rode piggyback on each other.
A new jargon has developed, identifying automated methods such as data diddling, Trojan horses, logic bombs, salami techniques, superzapping, piggybacking, scavenging, data leakage, and asynchronous attacks&hellip.
A new jargon has developed, identifying automated methods such as data diddling, Trojan horses, logic bombs, salami techniques, superzapping, piggybacking, scavenging, data leakage, and asynchronous attacks….