piggyback
Part of speech: adj
adv
verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: A corruption of pickaback, itself a corruption of pick-pack, like a pack.
Inflected forms:
form: piggy-back
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: piggy back
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: piggy-back
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: piggy back
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: piggybacks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: piggybacking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: piggybacked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: piggybacked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: piggy-back
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: piggy back
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: piggybacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: piggy-back
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: piggy back
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: On somebody's back or shoulders.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: give someone a piggyback ride
gloss: Pertaining to transportation of goods where one transportation unit is carried on the back of something else. For example, a truck on a train.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A Montreal-Toronto "Piggyback" freight of the Canadian Pacific.
What might be termed the psychological break-through for U.S. piggyback came in 1953-54. A prototype 75-foot piggyback flatcar was built, establishing the precedent for today's standard car with a capacity for two road trailers.
Until this time the railroads had favored piggyback services […]
gloss: Attached or appended to something larger or more important.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: piggyback legislation
gloss: On somebody's back or shoulders.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: to ride piggyback
gloss: To carry (someone) on the back or shoulders.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To ride on someone's back or shoulders.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To attach or append something to another (usually larger) object or event.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: They tried to piggyback that proposal on the rivers and harbors bill.
The popular host can’t claim credit for the trade, though. The idea wasn’t his. He piggybacked off another successful investor who had a history of picking winners.
Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Pat, I gotta tell you, you did a lot of things right with this lunch―kudos. You got back quickly, you showed initiative, and, best of all, you left plenty of room for improvement. Piggybacking on that last part, the ugly business of the critique.
[...] having crossed the river, the District again became entwined with the London & South Western Railway. In fact, the District would go from East Putney to Wimbledon by piggybacking on to a branch line of that railway, and sometimes overground trains still use the branch as a relief route between Wimbledon and Clapham Common.
But while carrying passengers for recreation is one thing, ferrying bona fide commuters in and out of the UK's third largest city is quite another. Yet that is exactly what Rossendale Borough Council (RBC) wants to do, by piggybacking onto the preserved railway's operations.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
transitive
gloss: To utilize "last-mile" wiring rented from a larger owner ISP by a smaller ISP.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
transitive
gloss: To transport (a lorry/truck) on a flatbed railway wagon.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: American railroads are not permitted to operate long-haul road routes, but the I.C.C. decision of 1954 did permit them to solicit trailer business in, say, New York for Chicago provided the trailer was piggybacked in between.
gloss: To enter a secured area at the same time along with (someone having authorized access); to tailgate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Okay, when someone accesses a door with a card key, anyone additional who comes in with them is piggy-backing on their access, like someone riding piggy-back. Get it?
gloss: A ride on somebody's back or shoulders.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: An act or instance of piggybacking.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The growth is taken for granted; what absorbs Americans today is the implication of piggyback for gross revenues and, more important, net profits.
The GOP had done its homework prior to bargaining for these piggybacks.
gloss: The connection of one intravenous drip to another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Piggyback medications are given through a port of an existing intravenous site. […] Calculation of the drip rate for piggybacks is the same as any other drip rate.
Certain IV drugs, whether given by piggyback or through a metered-dose infusion set, may be incompatible with an existing continuous IV infusion.
Related words: TOFC
piggyBac
fireman's carry
Derived words: birdyback
fishyback
piggybacker
piggyback plant
piggyback tax
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