pickaback
Americanadverb
noun
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Origin of pickaback
Example Sentences
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She had the intrepid fearlessness of her father, whose companion on his rounds she had been, when no danger was thought to be afoot, ever since she was old enough to ride pickaback.
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Dot bobbed sleepily above the head of the man who carried her pickaback.
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They looked at him, he thought, somewhat contemptuously, and seemed to say, "What sort of man is this, who goes to fight pickaback?"
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“Come, Flaxie,” said she, in a soothing tone, “let me wrap you up in a shawl and take you home pickaback,—there’s a good girl!”
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The women were being carried pickaback—and screamed when their helpers stumbled.
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