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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adv. On the shoulders or back: ride piggyback; a piggyback ride.
  2. adv. By or relating to a method of transportation in which truck trailers are carried on trains, or cars on specially designed trucks.
  3. adv. 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.
  4. n. The act of transporting piggyback.
  5. v. To cause to be aligned with an issue, for example, that is larger or more important: "a $21.5-million federal grant to piggyback city and state subsidies” ( New York).
  6. v. To function as if carried on the back of another: "This reagent will piggyback onto an enzyme” ( Seth Rolbein).

Wiktionary

  1. adj. On somebody's back or shoulders.
  2. adv. On somebody's back or shoulders.
  3. v. transitive To attach or append something to another (usually larger) object or event.
  4. v. transitive, Internet To obtain a wireless internet connection by bringing one's own computer within the range of another's wireless connection without that subscriber's permission or knowledge.
  5. v. transitive, Internet Utilizing last mile wiring (not wireless slang) rented from a larger owner ISP by a smaller ISP, last milers are obligated to sell to competitors in places like Canada.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. haul truck trailers loaded with commodities on railroad cars
  2. v. haul by railroad car
  3. v. ride on someone's shoulders or back
  4. v. support on the back and shoulders
  5. adv. on the back or shoulder or astraddle on the hip
  6. n. the act of carrying something piggyback
  7. adv. on a railroad flatcar
  8. v. bring into alignment with

Etymologies

  1. A corruption of pickaback, itself a corruption of pick-pack, like a pack. (Wiktionary)
  2. Alteration of dialectal pig back, alteration of pickaback, pickback, pick pack : probably dialectal pick, to throw (variant of pitch2) + back1 or pack1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Some terms piggyback off of older technologies, some re-define pre-existing words.”

    WiredPen

  • “Such projects, called piggyback or hosted payloads, have been gaining prominence as a relatively fast and inexpensive way to meet fast-growing demands for bandwidth from the Pentagon and other U.S. and foreign governmental agencies.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Boeing to Begin Selling Commercial-Satellite Capacity

  • “Or you can take out a second loan, known as a piggyback, with a higher rate.”

    Buying your first home can be intense

  • “Others flocked to so-called piggyback loans, which allowed them to finance as much as 100% of a home's value by combining a mortgage with a home-equity loan.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Lenders Rethink

  • “The so-called piggyback loans are the riskiest of this home-equity debt.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Home-Equity Woes Tarry

  • “Closed-end second-lien mortgage loans, or so-called piggyback loans, allow buyers to entirely fund the purchase of a home without putting any of their money down.”

    The Wall Street Journal: S&P Cuts Ratings of Risky Home Loans

  • “During the peak of the housing boom, many borrowers got around this requirement by taking out a so-called piggyback mortgage, which combined a mortgage with a home-equity loan or line of credit.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Mortgage Pain Hits

  • “Ms. Costa also maintains that no one ever explained to her that she was actually signing on to two loans to cover 100% of the home price: a $570,400 primary mortgage and a $142,600 so-called piggyback loan for the remaining 20% of the house's price.”

    The Wall Street Journal: How the Subprime Mess

  • “A mechanical left ventricular assist device LVAD, which would replace the function of his left heart and allow him to then go on to a standard heart transplant in a few months; or the so called "piggyback" transplant, which replaces the patient's left heart and allows the patient's right heart to continue the right-sided pumping through the lungs," Copeland said.”

    FOXNews.com

  • “In this speech he also praised piggyback mortgages and HELOCs [home equity lines of credit] used as piggyback loans: "Highly leveraged home purchasers tend to use so-called piggyback mortgages; that is, second liens originated at the time of purchase.”

    Safehaven

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  1. haul
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  1. hold
  1. carry
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