Piggyback (transportation)
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- | In transportation, '''piggyback''' refers to transportation of goods where one transportation unit is carried on the back of something else - it is a specialised form of [[intermodal freight transport|intermodal transportation]] and of [[combined transport]]. The term originated from the human practice known as ''piggybacking'' or ''piggyback riding'' where one person rides around on another's back. | + | In transportation, '''piggyback''' refers to transportation of goods where one transportation unit is carried on the [[back]] of something else - it is a specialised form of [[intermodal freight transport|intermodal transportation]] and of [[combined transport]]. The term originated from the human practice known as ''piggybacking'' or ''piggyback riding'' where one person rides around on another's back. |
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In transportation, piggyback refers to transportation of goods where one transportation unit is carried on the back of something else - it is a specialised form of intermodal transportation and of combined transport. The term originated from the human practice known as piggybacking or piggyback riding where one person rides around on another's back.
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Etymology
Piggyback is a corruption of pickaback, which is likely a folk etymology alteration of pick pack (1560s), which perhaps is from pick, a dialectal variant of pitch (v).
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