Pickaback

adv, verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    Dated form of piggyback (“carry someone on the back or shoulders”). alt-of, dated, transitive
Adverb
  1. 1
    on the back or the shoulders. not-comparable

    "For, as our modern wits behold, / Mounted a pick-back on the old, / Much further off; much further he / Rais'd on his aged beast, could see"

Adverb
  1. 1
    on the back or shoulder or astraddle on the hip wordnet
  2. 2
    on a railroad flatcar wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
pig backpig-a-backpiggyback

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"For, as our modern wits behold, / Mounted a pick-back on the old, / Much further off; much further he / Rais'd on his aged beast, could see"

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