Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to piggyback
Participle: piggybacked
Gerund: piggybacking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | piggyback |
| you | piggyback |
| he;she;it | piggybacks |
| we | piggyback |
| you | piggyback |
| they | piggyback |
Perfect
| I | have piggybacked |
| you | have piggybacked |
| he;she;it | has piggybacked |
| we | have piggybacked |
| you | have piggybacked |
| they | have piggybacked |
Past
| I | piggybacked |
| you | piggybacked |
| he;she;it | piggybacked |
| we | piggybacked |
| you | piggybacked |
| they | piggybacked |
Pluperfect
| I | had piggybacked |
| you | had piggybacked |
| he;she;it | had piggybacked |
| we | had piggybacked |
| you | had piggybacked |
| they | had piggybacked |
Future
| I | will piggyback |
| you | will piggyback |
| he;she;it | will piggyback |
| we | will piggyback |
| you | will piggyback |
| they | will piggyback |
Future Perfect
| I | will have piggybacked |
| you | will have piggybacked |
| he;she;it | will have piggybacked |
| we | will have piggybacked |
| you | will have piggybacked |
| they | will have piggybacked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | piggyback |
| you | piggyback |
| he;she;it | piggyback |
| we | piggyback |
| you | piggyback |
| they | piggyback |
Perfect
| I | have piggybacked |
| you | have piggybacked |
| he;she;it | have piggybacked |
| we | have piggybacked |
| you | have piggybacked |
| they | have piggybacked |
Imperfect
| I | piggybacked |
| you | piggybacked |
| he;she;it | piggybacked |
| we | piggybacked |
| you | piggybacked |
| they | piggybacked |
Pluperfect
| I | had piggybacked |
| you | had piggybacked |
| he;she;it | had piggybacked |
| we | had piggybacked |
| you | had piggybacked |
| they | had piggybacked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would piggyback |
| you | would piggyback |
| he;she;it | would piggyback |
| we | would piggyback |
| you | would piggyback |
| they | would piggyback |
Perfect
| I | would have piggybacked |
| you | would have piggybacked |
| he;she;it | would have piggybacked |
| we | would have piggybacked |
| you | would have piggybacked |
| they | would have piggybacked |
Imperative
| you | piggyback |
| we | Let's piggyback |
| you | piggyback |
Verbs conjugated like 'piggyback'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'piggyback'
highjack,
layback,
pressback,
ring-bark,
ringbark,
aggrace,
back,
barback,
bareback,
biobank,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
A corruption of pickaback, itself a corruption of pick-pack, like a pack.
Sample Sentences
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They tried to piggyback that proposal on the rivers and harbors bill.
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The popular host can’t claim credit for the trade, though. The idea wasn’t his. He piggybacked off another successful investor who had a history of picking winners.
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Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Pat, I gotta tell you, you did a lot of things right with this lunch―kudos. You got back quickly, you showed initiative, and, best of all, you left plenty of room for improvement. Piggybacking on that last part, the ugly business of the critique. [2011 Allen Gregory, "1 Night in Gottlieb" (season 1, episode 2)]
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[...] having crossed the river, the District again became entwined with the London & South Western Railway. In fact, the District would go from East Putney to Wimbledon by piggybacking on to a branch line of that railway, and sometimes overground trains still use the branch as a relief route between Wimbledon and Clapham Common. [2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 81:]
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But while carrying passengers for recreation is one thing, ferrying bona fide commuters in and out of the UK's third largest city is quite another. Yet that is exactly what Rossendale Borough Council (RBC) wants to do, by piggybacking onto the preserved railway's operations. [2023 March 22, Nick Brodrick, “Back to the future on the East Lancs?”, in RAIL, number 979, page 44:]
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American railroads are not permitted to operate long-haul road routes, but the I.C.C. decision of 1954 did permit them to solicit trailer business in, say, New York for Chicago provided the trailer was piggybacked in between. [1960 November, David Morgan, “"Piggyback"—U.S. success story”, in Trains Illustrated, page 683:]
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Okay, when someone accesses a door with a card key, anyone additional who comes in with them is piggy-backing on their access, like someone riding piggy-back. Get it?