piggyback
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piggyback
Where it comes from
A corruption of pickaback, itself a corruption of pick-pack, like a pack.
adjective piggy-back · piggy back
- On somebody's back or shoulders. give someone a piggyback ride
- Pertaining to transportation of goods where one transportation unit is carried on the back of something else. For example, a truck on a train. A Montreal-Toronto "Piggyback" freight of the Canadian Pacific.
- Attached or appended to something larger or more important. piggyback legislation
adverb piggy-back · piggy back
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On somebody's back or shoulders.
to ride piggyback
Similar: pooseback
verb piggybacks · piggybacking · piggybacked · piggy-back · piggy back
- To carry (someone) on the back or shoulders.
- To ride on someone's back or shoulders.
- To attach or append something to another (usually larger) object or event. They tried to piggyback that proposal on the rivers and harbors bill.
- 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.
- To utilize "last-mile" wiring rented from a larger owner ISP by a smaller ISP.
- To transport (a lorry/truck) on a flatbed railway wagon. 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.
- To enter a secured area at the same time along with (someone having authorized access); to tailgate. 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?
noun piggybacks · piggy-back · piggy back
- A ride on somebody's back or shoulders.
- An act or instance of piggybacking. The growth is taken for granted; what absorbs Americans today is the implication of piggyback for gross revenues and, more important, net profits.
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The connection of one intravenous drip to another.
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.
Similar: IVPB
Translations
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adv on somebody's back or shoulders
| Español | a cuestas, a la espalda, al apa, al caballito, a tuto, a tute |
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| 한국어 | 어부바 eobuba |
| 日本語 | 肩車 kataguruma |
| Português | às cavalitas, às cavaluchas |
| Deutsch | huckepack |
| Italiano | a cavalluccio |
| Русский | на спине́ na spiné, на зако́рках na zakórkax |
verb to carry someone on the back or shoulders
| Español | llevar a cuestas, llevar a la espalda, llevar al apa, llevar al caballito |
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| 한국어 | 업다 eopda |
| 日本語 | おんぶ onbu, 負ぶう obuu |
| 中文 | 揹 /背 bèi |
| Português | levar às cavalitas, levar às costas, levar aos ombros |
| Deutsch | huckepack tragen |
| Italiano | portare a cavalcioni, portare in spalla |
| Tiếng Việt | cõng |
verb to attach or append something to another (usually larger) object or event
| Français | found |
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| Deutsch | draufpacken, draufsatteln, dranhängen |
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title = {piggyback},
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