piggyback

1. 1.

   on a railroad flatcar

   “the trailer rode piggyback across the country”

   Synonymspickabackpig-a-back
2. 2.

   on the back or shoulder or astraddle on the hip

   “she carried her child piggyback”

   Synonymspickabackpig-a-back

1. 1.

   the act of carrying something piggyback

   Broadercarry

Other forms of piggyback

plural

piggybacks·

past tense

piggybacked·

present participle

piggybacking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about piggyback

What does piggyback mean?

piggyback means "ride on someone's shoulders or back". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in piggyback?

piggyback has 3 syllables: pig-gy-back. The stress falls on "pig". In IPA it is /ˈpɪɡiˌbæk/.

What is another word for piggyback?

Close synonyms include pickaback, pig-a-back, pickaback, 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 piggyback a common word?

piggyback is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with piggyback?

34 words rhyme with piggyback. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.