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Meanings of pickaback in English

Spanish
en un vagón-plataforma

On the back or shoulder or astraddle on the hip.

        en un vagón-plataforma
        Usage of pickaback in English
        1
        I am unable to carry you over that, pickaback.
        Ruth Fielding at the War Front; or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldie...
        2
        A giant Prussian bore a spectacled comrade pickaback.
        My Second Year of the War
        3
        The young men then decided that they would carry him pickaback by turns, and so they started.
        Earth Abides
        4
        I said, "You used to be little Mimsey Seraskier, and I used to carry you pickaback!"
        Peter Ibbetson
        5
        He carried her upstairs pickaback.
        Mary Olivier: a Life
        6
        He was sitting pickaback in a cloth on a powerfully-built servant, the ends of the cloth knotted on the man's forehead.
        The Jungle Girl
        7
        This time he took longer, when he reappeared he carried a figure riding pickaback and was holding a large equipment box in his arms.
        Strata
        8
        So impassable did it then become that even men were compelled to engage the services of a cargador to carry them across "pickaback."
        Maximilian in Mexico: A Woman's Reminiscences of the French Inte...
        9
        Then he lifted him pickaback on his shoulders, and bidding him hold on tight to his father's hair, carried him off proudly to the house.
        The Aspirations of Jean Servien
        10
        Pickaback is one of the old, old games which no one is so foolish as to try to trace to its origin.
        Sir Joshua Reynolds / A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Por...
        11
        "The giant who carried the old man in pickaback the first night of the war!"
        The Last Shot
        12
        "But, Auntie!" cried Jennie, "he's not going to try to carry me pickaback, you know."
        Ruth Fielding Down East; Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point
        13
        In Lady Cockburn and Her Children, The Duchess of Devonshire and Her Child, and Pickaback we have typical groups of mothers and children.
        Sir Joshua Reynolds / A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Por...
        14
        Often the attitude is full of action, as in the Miss Bowles, and at times there is a striking impression of motion, as in Pickaback.
        Sir Joshua Reynolds / A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Por...
        Frequent collocations
        Translations for pickaback
        Pickaback through the time