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
Unsoeld and National Geo graphic Photographer Barry Bishop, 30, had to be carried pickaback from a base camp to Namche Bazar, where a helicopter hustled them to the United Mission Hospital at Katmandu.
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
“Canst thou climb the ladder or wilt go pickaback? Tis a great height, but there are resting places.”
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
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