Usually means: Ride on another's back, shoulders.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word piggyback:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. piggyback: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. piggyback: Merriam-Webster
  3. piggyback: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. piggyback: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. piggyback: Collins English Dictionary
  6. piggyback: Vocabulary.com
  7. Piggyback, piggyback: Wordnik
  8. piggyback: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. piggyback: Wiktionary
  10. piggyback: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. piggyback: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. piggyback: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. piggyback: Dictionary.com
  14. piggyback: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. piggyback: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Piggyback (song), Piggyback (transportation): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. piggyback: Rhymezone
  18. piggyback: FreeDictionary.org
  19. piggyback: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. piggyback: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. Piggyback: World Wide Words

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. PIGGYBACK: Accounting Glossary
  2. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  3. Broadcast Media Terms (No longer online)
  4. Piggyback: Financial dictionary
  5. Glossary of Trucking Terms (No longer online)
  6. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. piggyback: Netlingo
  2. piggyback: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. piggyback: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See piggybacked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  On somebody's back or shoulders.
adjective:  Pertaining to transportation of goods where one transportation unit is carried on the back of something else. For example, a truck on a train.
adjective:  Attached or appended to something larger or more important.
adverb:  On somebody's back or shoulders.
verb:  (transitive) To carry (someone) on the back or shoulders.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To attach or append something to another (usually larger) object or event.
verb:  (transitive, Internet) 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.
verb:  (transitive, Internet) To utilize "last-mile" wiring rented from a larger owner ISP by a smaller ISP.
verb:  (transitive) To transport (a lorry/truck) on a flatbed railway wagon.
verb:  (transitive) To enter a secured area at the same time along with (someone having authorized access); to tailgate.
noun:  (countable) A ride on somebody's back or shoulders.
noun:  An act or instance of piggybacking.
noun:  (medicine, countable, uncountable) The connection of one intravenous drip to another.

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