0 past simple and past participle of piggyback --
1 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.
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.
Each of the two packets contains the permanent and temporary keys of the sending node which are piggybacked on top of normal data packets.
He himself piggybacked the trades for his own benefit, and the volume led one of his colleagues to get suspicious.
In order to get a piece of the action for themselves, some of them copied, or piggybacked, his trades for their own accounts.
It is said that until now, the growth in wind power piggybacked on existing lines, but has now almost depleted spare capacity.
This in turn prevents politicians from sneaking unpopular legislation through, piggybacked on legislation which is more likely to pass.
As in most cases, these studies were designed to detect clinical differences and economic analysis was "piggybacked" on.
