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pickabacking

pickabacking is the present participle and gerund of pickaback.

Meaning of pickaback

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

Questions about pickabacking

What is pickabacking the present participle and gerund of?
Pickabacking is the present participle and gerund of pickaback.

Words near pickabacking in the dictionary

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

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