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pickaback

pickaback adverb: on the back or the shoulders. Also the dated form of piggyback.

Adverb

pickaback (not comparable)

  1. (Carried) on the back or the shoulders.
    • For, as our modern wits behold, / Mounted a pick-back on the old, / Much further off; much further he / Rais'd on his aged beast, could see1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 2
    • The young men then decided that they would carry him pickaback at turns, and so they did.1949, George R. Stewart, Earth Abides

Also used as

pickaback is also the dated form of piggyback.

Forms of pickaback

third-person singular presentpickabacks
present participlepickabacking
past participlepickabacked
pastpickabacked

Words formed from pickaback

Questions about pickaback

What does pickaback mean?
Pickaback means on the back or the shoulders.
What part of speech is pickaback?
Pickaback is an adverb.

Words near pickaback in the dictionary

  1. pick-up lines
  2. pick-up sticks
  3. pick-ups
  4. pick-your-own
  5. pick-your-owns
  6. pickaback
  7. pickabacked
  8. pickabacking
  9. pickabacks
  10. pickability
  11. pickable

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