0 a 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.
1 on someone's back, or on the back of something: --
2 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.
3 on someone’s back: --
4 to use something that already exists or has already been done successfully to do something else quickly or effectively: --
5 used to describe something that piggybacks off another successful or effective thing: --
I hope later in the summer to see a demonstration of a prototype piggyback vehicle.
The proposals of the piggyback consortium show how quickly an essential freight service could be provided.
Is she aware that electrification would greatly increase the chance of piggyback freight and other forms of freight using the rail link?
The sharehold agreement includes a piggy-back agreement.
The modulator alters some aspect of the carrier signal, such as its amplitude, frequency, or phase, with the baseband signal, piggybacking the data onto the carrier.
Essentially, these infopreneurs piggy-back on already established information.
Wire guidance systems were piggybacked onto this cable, and the torpedo had no homing capability.
The original usages piggybacked on the concept of connected knowing, which emphasized the importance of context in the development of knowledge for women.
