pickaback

An archaic adverb meaning 'on the back or shoulders,' as in carrying someone piggyback. It is an older variant of the modern term 'piggyback' and is rarely used in contemporary English.

• 🇪🇸Adverbio anticuado que significa 'sobre la espalda o los hombros de una persona', como al llevar a alguien a cuestas. Es una variante más antigua del término moderno 'piggyback' y rara vez se usa en inglés contemporáneo.

1. On a railroad flatcar C1 formal

   Describes the transport of a truck or trailer on a railroad flatcar.

   • The trucks were shipped pickaback across the country.
   • The company uses pickaback transport to reduce costs.
   • The trailers were loaded pickaback onto the train.

   🇪🇸Transporte de camiones sobre vagón plataforma

   Sinónimos: piggyback

2. On the back or shoulders B2 informal

   Carried on someone's back, shoulders, or straddled on the hip.

   • The child rode pickaback on his father's shoulders.
   • She carried her little sister pickaback through the park.
   • He gave his daughter a pickaback ride home.

   🇪🇸A cuestas

   Sinónimos: piggyback

• more pickaback comparative form
• most pickaback superlative form