From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishldoce_259_bpiggybackpig‧gy‧back1 /ˈpɪɡibæk/ (also piggyback ride) noun [countable] CARRYif you give someone, especially a child, a piggyback, you carry them high on your shoulders, supporting them with your hands under their legs —piggyback adverb
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piggyback• More than 70 percent of the females at the lake reach the water with a male already riding piggyback.• I had been dreaming of Cymbeline riding piggyback on my shoulders.piggybackpiggyback2 verb [intransitive] informal 1 USE/CONSUMEto use something that is bigger, better, or more successful in order to help another product or project succeedpiggyback on/onto videos that piggyback onto the success of proven TV programs2 to use someone else’s wi-fi connection to the Internet, without their knowledge or permissionpiggyback on/onto How can I prevent other people from piggybacking onto my connection? —piggybacking noun [uncountable]→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpus
piggyback on/onto• Others piggyback on existing brands by borrowing parts of their names.• I had been dreaming of Cymbeline riding piggyback on my shoulders.• These new firms are piggybacking onto technology that we developed.From Longman Business Dictionarypiggybackpig‧gy‧back /ˈpɪgibæk/ verb1[intransitive, transitive] to use a situation that already exists in order to do or get what you wantpiggyback on/ontoSome pharmaceutical companies piggyback on existing brands by borrowing parts of their names.It wants to piggyback its order onto another city’s contract to keep costs down.2[transitive]TRANSPORT to move goods from one place to another, using containers that can be carried both by train and by road→ See Verb table