pickaback

1. 1.

   on a railroad flatcar

   “the trailer rode piggyback across the country”

   Synonymspiggybackpig-a-back
2. 2.

   on the back or shoulder or astraddle on the hip

   “she carried her child piggyback”

   Synonymspiggybackpig-a-back

Questions about pickaback

What does pickaback mean?

pickaback means "on a railroad flatcar". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pickaback?

pickaback has 3 syllables: pic-ka-back. The stress falls on "pic".

What is another word for pickaback?

Close synonyms include piggyback, pig-a-back, piggyback, pig-a-back. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pickaback a common word?

pickaback 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.