piggyback

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One of the most common was a "piggyback," where the borrower took out two mortgages at once.

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  1. adverb On the shoulders or back: ride piggyback; a piggyback ride.
  2. adverb By or relating to a method of transportation in which truck trailers are carried on trains, or cars on specially designed trucks.
  3. adverb In connection with something larger or more important: a tariff provision that came piggyback with the tax bill; a piggyback provision to a new piece of legislation.

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  • Immediately the door closed I snatched up child and boots, swung Jessica around piggyback, and trotted down the rough verge in my bare feet. —  The Beekeeper’s Apprentice - Laurie R. King - Russell-Holmes 01
  • In preparation for these anticipated challenges, the single 20-mm gun on the forecastle was removed from the cutters and replaced by a "piggyback" arrangement of a .50-caliber machine gun on top of an 81-mm mortar. —  Brown Waters, Black Berets
  • "The case where men and women do the same job but receive different rates of pay is the paradigm of the kind of situation which the Act was intended to prevent, how would it seem if the roles were reversed and the 'piggyback' claimants were not men but women?" —  BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
  • Decisions still must be made on how much funding to direct to stem cell research, a perennial fight, and whether to divert $60 million in local "piggyback" income tax revenue to state coffers, as the House proposed. —  Blog updates
  • The measure (SB 1112) would correct a law passed last year to "piggyback" Florida's corporate income tax to the federal tax code.
 

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  1. Alteration of dialectal pig back, alteration of pickaback, pickback, pick pack : probably dialectal pick, to throw (variant of pitch2) + back1 or pack1.
 

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