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Adverbial piggyback has 2 senses

piggyback, pickaback, pig-a-back - on a railroad flatcar; "the trailer rode piggyback across the country"
piggyback, pickaback, pig-a-back - on the back or shoulder or astraddle on the hip; "she carried her child piggyback"

Verb piggyback has 5 senses

piggyback - ride on someone's shoulders or back
--₁ is one way to ride
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
piggyback - haul truck trailers loaded with commodities on railroad cars
--₂ is one way to haul
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
piggyback - haul by railroad car
--₃ is one way to haul
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
piggyback - carry on the back or shoulders; "She piggybacked a sick classmate to school"
--₄ is one way to bear
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
piggyback - support on the back and shoulders; "He piggybacked her child so she could see the show"
--₅ is one way to hold, carry, bear
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody