[pig-ee-bak] 
| 1. | on the back or shoulders: The little girl rode piggyback on her father. |
| 2. | astride the back or shoulders: a piggyback ride. |
| 3. | sharing commercial time, space, etc.: piggyback advertising. |
| 4. | carryable or attachable: a piggyback turbine unit. |
| 5. | added or tacked on; supplementary: a piggyback clause. |
| 6. | noting or pertaining to the carrying of one vehicle or the like by another, as the carrying of loaded truck trailers on flatcars. |
| 7. | to attach or ally to as or as if a part of the same thing: to piggyback human rights agreements with foreign aid. |
| 8. | to carry (somebody) on the back or shoulders. |
| 9. | to carry (truck trailers) by railroad on flatcars. |
| 10. | Radio and Television Slang. to advertise (two or more products) in the same commercial. |
| 11. | to be transported aboard or atop another carrier: The space shuttle piggybacked on the airplane. |
| 12. | to use, appropriate, or exploit the availability, services, or facilities of another: private clinics piggybacking on federal health-care facilities. |
| 13. | to carry truck trailers by railroad on flatcars. |
| 14. | a house trailer designed to fit over a pickup truck. |
| 15. | a truck trailer carried on a flatcar. |
| 16. | anything that operates in connection with or as part of another. |
| pig·gy·back (pĭg'ē-bāk') adv. & adj.
v. pig·gy·backed, pig·gy·back·ing, pig·gy·backs v. tr. To cause to be aligned with an issue, for example, that is larger or more important: "a $21.5-million federal grant to piggyback city and state subsidies" (New York). v. intr. To function as if carried on the back of another: "This reagent will piggyback onto an enzyme" (Seth Rolbein). [Alteration of dialectal pig back, alteration of pickaback, pickback, pick pack : probably dialectal pick, to throw (variant of pitch2) + back1 or pack1.] |
piggyback
A broker trading in his or her personal account after trading in the same security for a customer. The broker may believe the customer has access to privileged information that will cause the transaction to be profitable.
See follow-on offering.
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