piggybacknoun [ C ]
uk/ˈpɪɡ.i.bæk/us/ˈpɪɡ.i.bæk/also piggyback ridea ride on someone's back with your arms round the person's neck and your legs round their waist:
I gave her a piggyback ride.
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Children's games
- blind man's buff
- conker
- double Dutch
- follow-my-leader
- hangman
- hide-and-seek
- hoopla
- hopscotch
- leapfrog
- life
- marble
- midget
- peekaboo
- piggy in the middle
- play
- pretend
- show-and-tell
- spitball
- tag
- trick-or-treating
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piggybackadverb
uk/ˈpɪɡ.i.bæk/us/ˈpɪɡ.i.bæk/on someone's back, or on the back of something:
Martha rode piggyback on her dad.
Dom carried his daughter piggyback when she got too tired to walk.
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Children's games
- blind man's buff
- conker
- double Dutch
- follow-my-leader
- hangman
- hide-and-seek
- hoopla
- hopscotch
- leapfrog
- life
- marble
- midget
- peekaboo
- piggy in the middle
- play
- pretend
- show-and-tell
- spitball
- tag
- trick-or-treating
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piggybackverb [ I ]
uk/ˈpɪɡ.i.bæk/us/ˈpɪɡ.i.bæk/to use something that someone else has made or done in order to get an advantage:
Everyone wants to piggyback on the phenomenal success of the TV series.
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Advantage and disadvantage
- a free ride idiom
- a stick to beat sb with idiom
- advantage
- an ace up your sleeve idiom
- attraction
- be/stay/keep one jump ahead idiom
- cash
- cash in on sth
- edge
- fish
- in the right place at the right time idiom
- it's tough at the top idiom
- lock in sth
- lock sb out of sth
- lose out
- profit
- profit from sth
- upside
- you've got nothing to lose idiom
- your best/strongest/trump card idiom
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