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PIGGYBACKS

10 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 20 pts

PIGGYBACKS is a valid 10-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 20 in Super Big Boggle.

PIGGYBACKS root PIGGYBACK-s

Word family

PIGGYBACK 11 PIGGYBACKING-ing 11 PIGGYBACKED-ed 11
adjective
  1. On somebody's back or shoulders.
    • give someone a piggyback ride
  2. Pertaining to transportation of goods where one transportation unit is carried on the back of something else. For example, a truck on a train.
  3. Attached or appended to something larger or more important.
    • piggyback legislation
adverb
  1. On somebody's back or shoulders.
    • to ride piggyback
verb
  1. transitiveTo carry (someone) on the back or shoulders.
  2. transitiveTo ride on someone's back or shoulders.
  3. ambitransitiveTo attach or append something to another (usually larger) object or event.
    • They tried to piggyback that proposal on the rivers and harbors bill.
    • The popular host can’t claim credit for the trade, though. The idea wasn’t his. He piggybacked off another successful investor who had a history of picking winners.
  4. InternettransitiveTo obtain a wireless internet connection by bringing one's own computer within the range of another's wireless connection without that subscriber's permission or knowledge.
  5. InternettransitiveTo utilize "last-mile" wiring rented from a larger owner ISP by a smaller ISP.
  6. transitiveTo transport (a lorry/truck) on a flatbed railway wagon.
  7. transitiveTo enter a secured area at the same time along with (someone having authorized access); to tailgate.
    • Okay, when someone accesses a door with a card key, anyone additional who comes in with them is piggy-backing on their access, like someone riding piggy-back. Get it?
noun
  1. countableA ride on somebody's back or shoulders.
  2. countableuncountableAn act or instance of piggybacking.
  3. countableuncountableThe connection of one intravenous drip to another.