Crossword clues for piggyback
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
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 attach or append something to another (usually larger) object or event. 2 (context transitive Internet English) To obtain a wireless internet connection by bringing one's own computer within the range of another's wireless connection without that subscriber's permission or knowledge. 3 (context transitive Internet English) Utilizing last mile wiring (not wireless slang) rented from a larger owner ISP by a smaller ISP, last milers are obligated to sell to competitors in places like Canada. 4 (context transitive English) to carry someone on the back or shoulders.
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 back
haul truck trailers loaded with commodities on railroad cars
haul by railroad car
carry on the back or shoulders; "She piggybacked a sick classmate to school"
support on the back and shoulders; "He piggybacked her child so she could see the show"
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.
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….