Piggybacking

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piggyback
v. add cargo wagons to a train; ride on the shoulders of a person, ride on a person's back


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Piggybacking
Piggybacking may refer to:Piggy-back (transportation), something that is riding on the back of something elseAutorack, transporting cars on trainsSplash cymbal piggybacking, mounting a cymbal on top of an already stand mounted cymbalSeasoned trade line, strangers with bad credit using someone with good credit's credit card accountPiggyback plant, Tolmiea menziesiiPiggy-back (law), shareholder selling rights
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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


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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
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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.

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