pickaback
Americanadverb
noun
Etymology
Origin of pickaback
Example Sentences
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The Germans were mounting the robots pickaback on old Heinkels and other obsolete bombers, whose pilots took off from bases in north Holland and Germany, launched the robots at sea, at night.
From Time Magazine Archive
Using quartz controls, radio stations stay on the beam; hundreds of conversations ride pickaback along a single telephone circuit and are properly unscrambled at the receiving end.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week, he slipped out of the Hotel Matignon to take a walk; frantic policemen scoured the city, finally found him in a park playing pickaback with some children he had befriended.
From Time Magazine Archive
The pickaback plane, or "Short-Mayo Composite Aircraft," consists of two seaplanes�a small, swift, long-range ship securely locked on the back of a big short-range "mother" flying boat.
From Time Magazine Archive
It would be better to go pickaback and carry thy crosses most of the way.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
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