piggyback

Examples

• All

• Get on my back for a piggyback ride.

  Almost Famous (2000)

• Behind them, three young guys carry their girlfriends piggyback, racing each other toward the departure dock.

  Fiction book (1998)

• Here, give me a piggyback ride.

  Experiment in Torture (2007)

• We're going for a piggyback ride.

  Saboteur (1942)

• Let me give you a piggyback.

  The Blue Bird (1940)

• Maggie declined his offer to be carried piggyback across the puddle, but the other two women accepted.

  Fiction book (2001)

• When the boy stirs, Lincoln scoops him up and gives him a piggyback ride to his bedroom.

  Blog text (8)

• And the idea of Bella riding piggyback on Edward as he zooms through the forest still makes me laugh.

  Blog text (22)

• Susie L. Yazzie remembers being carried piggyback after the sheep, then later walking with them while holding her aunt's hand.

  Academic text (1998)

• She jumped onto his back for a piggyback ride, laughing as he pretended to be a horse.

Synonyms

F

fireman's carry

vspiggyback

• Specialized

1 5.5

A way of carrying a person over your shoulders to move them quickly

carries someone on the back with limbs wrapped around rather than draped

P

pickaback

vspiggyback

1 8.1

On someone's back when another person carries them

is the same meaning but is an alternative form or variant spelling

Compounds

P

piggyback plant

• Specialized

9.9

A small green plant that grows baby plants on its leaves

Surface Forms

Etymology