ALL meanings of piggybacking
pig·gy·back
P p - noun Technical meaning of 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. 1
- adverb piggybacking on the back or shoulders: The little girl rode piggyback on her father. 1
- adjective piggybacking astride the back or shoulders: a piggyback ride. 1
- adjective piggybacking sharing commercial time, space, etc.: piggyback advertising. 1
- adjective piggybacking carryable or attachable: a piggyback turbine unit. 1
- adjective piggybacking added or tacked on; supplementary: a piggyback clause. 1
- adjective piggybacking noting or pertaining to the carrying of one vehicle or the like by another, as the carrying of loaded truck trailers on flatcars. 1
- verb with object piggybacking to attach or ally to as or as if a part of the same thing: to piggyback human rights agreements with foreign aid. 1
- verb with object piggybacking to carry (somebody) on the back or shoulders. 1
- verb with object piggybacking to carry (truck trailers) by railroad on flatcars. 1
- verb with object piggybacking Radio and Television Slang. to advertise (two or more products) in the same commercial. 1
- verb without object piggybacking to be transported aboard or atop another carrier: The space shuttle piggybacked on the airplane. 1
- verb without object piggybacking to use, appropriate, or exploit the availability, services, or facilities of another: private clinics piggybacking on federal health-care facilities. 1
- verb without object piggybacking to carry truck trailers by railroad on flatcars. 1
- noun piggybacking a house trailer designed to fit over a pickup truck. 1
- noun piggybacking a truck trailer carried on a flatcar. 1
- noun piggybacking anything that operates in connection with or as part of another. 1