Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pickaback

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pick-aback
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

on the back or the shoulders.

verb

Dated form of piggyback (“carry someone on the back or shoulders”).

Dated; Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"For, as our modern wits behold, / Mounted a pick-back on the old, / Much further off; much further he / Rais'd on his aged beast, could see"
"The young men then decided that they would carry him pickaback at turns, and so they did."

Usage

Inflected Forms

pickabacks (present, singular) pickabacking (participle, present) pickabacked (participle, past) pickabacked (past)

Derived Forms

piggyback

Synonyms

piggyback pig-a-back

Questions

What does pickaback mean?: on the back or the shoulders.

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