pickaback
Americanadverb
noun
Etymology
Origin of pickaback
Example Sentences
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Afterward he suffered with asthma so racking that Maggie or Gram often had to carry him pickaback upstairs.
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
Some of them, bedridden, found themselves hoisted pickaback by sweating soldiers.
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
“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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