piggyback
v.
add cargo wagons to a train; ride on the shoulders of a person, ride on a person's back
Piggybacking
piggyback
Verb
1. ride on someone's shoulders or back
(hypernym) ride
2. haul truck trailers loaded with commodities on railroad cars
(hypernym) haul
3. haul by railroad car
(hypernym) haul
4. carry on the back or shoulders; "She piggybacked a sick classmate to school"
(hypernym) bear
5. support on the back and shoulders; "He piggybacked her child so she could see the show"
(hypernym) hold, carry, bear
Adverb
1. on a railroad flatcar; "the trailer rode piggyback across the country"
(synonym) pickaback, pig-a-back
2. on the back or shoulder or astraddle on the hip; "she carried her child piggyback"
(synonym) pickaback, pig-a-back
piggybacking
1. A method for passing
acknowledgement frames and
data frames in the same direction along a line.
2. The practice of increasing memory capacity by soldering chips on top of other chips. The chip-enable or high address pins would be connected to the
address bus by a flying lead. Many
Ohio Superboards were expanded to a massive 8K of
RAM in this way.
(1994-11-29)
(c) Copyright 1993 by Denis Howe
Piggybacking
Illegal practice by a
broker who
trades stocks,
bonds or
commodity in his personal account that he or she has just traded for a customer. The
broker assumes that the customer is making the trade on vaulable inside information.