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pickaback

[ pik-uh-bak ]

pickaback

/ ˈɪəˌæ /

noun

  1. another word for piggyback
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of pickaback1

1555–65; earlier a pickback; pick 1, back 1
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Example Sentences

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It would be better to go pickaback and carry thy crosses most of the way.

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She had the intrepid fearlessness of her father, whose companion on his rounds she had been, when no danger was thought to be afoot, ever since she was old enough to ride pickaback.

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Dot bobbed sleepily above the head of the man who carried her pickaback.

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They looked at him, he thought, somewhat contemptuously, and seemed to say, "What sort of man is this, who goes to fight pickaback?"

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“Come, Flaxie,” said she, in a soothing tone, “let me wrap you up in a shawl and take you home pickaback,—there’s a good girl!”

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