piggyback

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I - noun

the act of carrying something piggyback
• Hypernyms:
carry

II - verb

1. ride on someone's shoulders or back
• Hypernyms:
ride
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
- Something is ----ing PP
- Somebody ----s PP
2. haul truck trailers loaded with commodities on railroad cars
• Hypernyms:
haul
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
3. haul by railroad car
• Hypernyms:
haul
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
4. support on the back and shoulders
- He piggybacked her child so she could see the show
• Hypernyms:
hold, carry, bear
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
5. bring into alignment with
- an amendment to piggyback the current law
• Hypernyms:
change, alter, modify
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something

III - adverb

1. on a railroad flatcar
- the trailer rode piggyback across the country
• Syn:
pickaback, pig-a-back
2. on the back or shoulder or astraddle on the hip
- she carried her child piggyback
• Syn:
pickaback, pig-a-back