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to piggyback

to piggyback

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To carry someone on your back or shoulders
  • verb
  • /ˈpɪɡiˌbæk/
translation icon : llevar a caballito
  • You piggybacking me?

Is that how you immediately halve the entire crowd is if your companion your like you, you literally put like piggyback someone on you.

Examples

Compounds

piggyback plant
  • Specialized
9.9

A small green plant that grows baby plants on its leaves

Surface Forms

piggyback infinitive
piggybacked past participle
piggybacking present participle
piggybacks third person singular

Etymology

Piggyback as a verb comes from pick-a-back, which meant 'to put on the back' and later became piggyback. So to piggyback someone is simply to carry them 'on your back'.