Piggyback

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • ad. On the shoulders or back: ride piggyback; a piggyback ride.
  • ad. By or relating to a method of transportation in which truck trailers are carried on trains, or cars on specially designed trucks.
  • ad. In connection with something larger or more important: a tariff provision that came piggyback with the tax bill; a piggyback provision to a new piece of legislation.
  • n. The act of transporting piggyback.
  • v. To cause to be aligned with an issue, for example, that is larger or more important: "a $21.5-million federal grant to piggyback city and state subsidies” ( New York).
  • verb-intransitive. To function as if carried on the back of another: "This reagent will piggyback onto an enzyme” ( Seth Rolbein).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. On somebody's back or shoulders.
  • ad. On somebody's back or shoulders.
  • v. To attach or append something to another (usually larger) object or event.
  • v. To obtain a wireless internet connection by bringing one's own computer within the range of another's wireless connection without that subscriber's permission or knowledge.
  • v. Utilizing last mile wiring (not wireless slang) rented from a larger owner ISP by a smaller ISP, last milers are obligated to sell to competitors in places like Canada.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. haul truck trailers loaded with commodities on railroad cars
  • v. haul by railroad car
  • v. ride on someone's shoulders or back
  • v. support on the back and shoulders
  • ad. on the back or shoulder or astraddle on the hip
  • n. the act of carrying something piggyback
  • ad. on a railroad flatcar
  • v. bring into alignment with
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    haul    ride    bear    hold    carry    change    modify    alter   
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