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pickapack

pickapack is the dated form 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 pickapack

What is pickapack the dated form of?
Pickapack is the dated form of pickaback.

Words near pickapack in the dictionary

  1. pickages
  2. pickaninnie
  3. pickaninnies
  4. pickaninny
  5. pickaninny Christmas
  6. pickapack
  7. Pickar
  8. Pickard
  9. Pickards
  10. pickaroon
  11. pickaroons

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