Definition of pickaback in English:
pickaback
adverb, verb, noun, & adjectiveˈpɪkəbak
as noun would you mind giving her a pickaback?
old-fashioned term for piggyback
as verb my father pickabacking me to bed
as adverb I climbed up from behind upon him, so he bore me pickaback
as adjective a pickaback ride
Example sentencesExamples
- In contrast, it is preferable that an infant should be held in a pickaback ride or a vertical manner when the head of the infant is set and the body of the infant becomes bigger.
- Especially droll was the situation of the huge fat Captain S., who, puffing and smiling good-naturedly, with legs dragging on the ground, rode pickaback on the feeble little Lieutenant O.
Definition of pickaback in US English:
pickaback
verb, adverb, noun, & adjectiveˈpɪkəˌbækˈpikəˌbak
as noun would you mind giving her a pickaback?
old-fashioned term for piggyback
as verb my father pickabacking me to bed
as adverb I climbed up from behind upon him, so he bore me pickaback
as adjective a pickaback ride
Example sentencesExamples
- Especially droll was the situation of the huge fat Captain S., who, puffing and smiling good-naturedly, with legs dragging on the ground, rode pickaback on the feeble little Lieutenant O.
- In contrast, it is preferable that an infant should be held in a pickaback ride or a vertical manner when the head of the infant is set and the body of the infant becomes bigger.