pickaback

[ pik-uh-bak ]

/ ˈpɪk əˌbæk /

Origin of pickaback

1555–65; earlier a pickback; see pick¹, back¹

This brought Horace around in a minute, and called forth a pickaback ride.

Little Folks Astray |Sophia May (Rebecca Sophia Clarke)
Sue begged, so Tom carried her pickaback, while Sue held tightly to her doll.

Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Camp Rest-A-While |Laura Lee Hope
The giant who carried the old man in pickaback the first night of the war!

The Last Shot |Frederick Palmer
Claude Phillips refers to Pickaback as "one of the most popular and representative" of this class.

Sir Joshua Reynolds |Estelle M. Hurll

Reduplication is responsible for pickaback, earlier pickpack, from pack, bundle.

The Romance of Words (4th ed.) |Ernest Weekley

pickaback

/ (ˈpɪkəˌbæk) /

another word for piggyback