pickaback

pickaback

English

Adverb

pickaback (not comparable)

1. On the back or the shoulders
   • 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 2

     For, as our modern wits behold, / Mounted a pick-back on the old, / Much further off; much further he / Rais'd on his aged beast, could see

   • 1949, Earth Abides, by George R. Stewart

     The young men then decided that they would carry him pickaback at turns, and so they did.

Usage notes

• Used especially of something or somebody being carried in this manner.

Descendants

• piggyback