pickaback

ADVERB
  1. on the back or shoulder or astraddle on the hip
    she carried her child piggyback
  2. on a railroad flatcar
    the trailer rode piggyback across the country
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How To Use pickaback In A Sentence

  • My son rode pickaback on me to watch the parade.
  • But, Auntie!" cried Jennie, "he's not going to try to carry me pickaback, you know. Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point
  • Standing higher than the others on the edge of the breach was that giant who had brought Grandfather Fragini in pickaback, looking a young god on an escarpment of rock on Olympus. The Last Shot
  • 'We'll make young Garon carry you pickaback ,' Cleaton said with an evil grin. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
  • My father pacified me by taking me on his shoulders and carrying me "pickaback" up and down the shop, and I clung to him in the happy consciousness that I belonged to him, and that he would not let anybody else have me; though I did not feel quite easy until Captain A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA)
  • pickaback" on a man's shoulders; a nice, modest, good-looking young woman, her hair rubbed all over with _nkola_, a red pigment, made from the camwood, and much used as an ornament. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868
  • The giant who carried the old man in pickaback the first night of the war! The Last Shot
  • In contrast, it is preferable that an infant should be held in a pickaback ride or a vertical manner when the head of the infant is set and the body of the infant becomes bigger.
  • On the walk back from the Hrruban village -- until Hrrula had taken him pickaback -- his stride had matched his father's when he wasn't dancing ahead or jumping over obstacles. Decision at Doona
  • He was sitting pickaback in a cloth on a powerfully-built servant, the ends of the cloth knotted on the man's forehead. The Jungle Girl
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