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View definitions for piggyback

piggyback

adjective as in astride

verb as in pack

verb as in top

verb as in transport

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Example Sentences

Wong continued, “I liked getting a piggyback ride from Steven at the end. That was really funny. That was fun because every time I would get on his back, he would ‘pop’ a little bit.

From Salon

The Europa Clipper spacecraft will chase a European mission that left last year, but using a cosmic piggyback, it will overtake and arrive first.

From BBC

First, the lawsuit piggybacks on a report issued last month by the Republican staff of the House Judiciary Committee, which is chaired by that outstanding blowhard, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio.

It created an open architecture for third-party developers to piggyback on; the fundamental idea was that by extending the system’s capabilities, those other developers made Microsoft’s central system more valuable.

The breakthrough is to prove it can be done by piggybacking on the heat generated by another heavy industry – steel recycling.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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