Meanings
- not comparableCarriedon the back or the shoulders.
The young men then decided that they would carry him pickaback at turns, and so they did.
1949, George R. Stewart, Earth Abides1 more example
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
1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 2
present singular third person pickabacks · participle present pickabacking · participle past pickabacked · past pickabacked
- datedtransitiveDated form of piggyback (“carry someone on the back or shoulders”).
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbon a railroad flatcar
adverbon the back or shoulder or astraddle on the hip
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Cite this entry
pickaback. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pickaback
“pickaback.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pickaback. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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