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Määritelmät
Adjektiivi
- On somebody's back or shoulders.
- Pertaining to transportation of goods where one transportation unit is carried on the back of something else. For example, a truck on a train.
- Attached or appended to something larger or more important.
Adverbi
- On somebody's back or shoulders.
Verbi
- (transitive) To carry (someone) on the back or shoulders.
- (transitive) To ride on someone's back or shoulders.
- (ambitransitive) To attach or append something to another (usually larger) object or event.
- (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.
- (transitive, Internet) To utilize "last-mile" wiring rented from a larger owner ISP by a smaller ISP.
- (transitive) To transport (a lorry/truck) on a flatbed railway wagon.
- (transitive) To enter a secured area at the same time along with (someone having authorized access); to tailgate.
Substantiivi
- (countable) A ride on somebody's back or shoulders.
- An act or instance of piggybacking.
- (medicine, countable, uncountable) The connection of one intravenous drip to another.
Esimerkit
- a piggyback ride
- Until this time the railroads had favored piggyback services (...) (John H. Mahoney, Intermodal Freight Transportation, 1985)
- to ride piggyback
- The popular host can’t claim credit for the trade, though. The idea wasn’t his. He piggybacked off another successful investor who had a history of picking winners.
- They tried to piggyback that proposal on the rivers and harbors bill.
- A piggyback ride.
- With a piggyback loan, you can get around having to pay private mortgage insurance. (Suze Orman, The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke, 2005)
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