piggy back
Ride on shoulders
Piggyback describes carrying someone on your back, with their legs around your waist and arms around your neck—the way children ride on adults.
The term extends to anything that rides along on something else: a piggyback loan adds to an existing mortgage, trucks piggyback on trains.
To piggyback on someone's work is to build upon or exploit it: The startup piggybacked on existing infrastructure.
Also spelled piggy-back or piggy back.
- carryMove while supporting
- rideJourney atop something
- utilizePut to practical purpose
- leverageBorrowed capital for amplified returns
- hoistRaise with tackle
give a lift · co-opt · lift · portage · hitchhike · free ride · fun · recreation · bonding · shoulder · friendship · game · capitalize · transport · play · piggybacking · synergize · teamwork
piggy backwalking
Locomotion on foot
self-propelled · on foot · under one's own steam · walking unaided · striding
piggy backself-reliant
Able to provide independently
independent · autonomous · self-sufficient · going it alone · standing alone
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