fireman's carry

1. 1.

   the act of carrying a person over your shoulder

   Broadercarry

Questions about fireman's carry

What does fireman's carry mean?

fireman's carry means "the act of carrying a person over your shoulder".

Is fireman's carry a common word?

fireman's carry is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.