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English

Alternative forms

• piggy-back
• piggy back

Etymology

A corruption of pickaback, itself a corruption of pick-pack, like a pack.

Adjective

piggyback (not comparable)

1. On somebody's back or shoulders.

   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.
   • 1985, John H. Mahoney, Intermodal Freight Transportation

     Until this time the railroads had favored piggyback services […]

3. Attached or appended to something larger or more important.

   piggyback legislation

See also

• TOFC

Adverb

piggyback (not comparable)

1. On somebody's back or shoulders.

   to ride piggyback

Synonyms

• (on somebody's back or shoulders): pooseback (some US dialects)

Translations

Verb

piggyback (third-person singular simple present piggybacks, present participle piggybacking, simple past and past participle piggybacked)

1. (transitive) to carry someone on the back or shoulders.
2. (transitive) To attach or append something to another (usually larger) object or event.
   • 2011 Allen Gregory, "1 Night in Gottlieb" (season 1, episode 2):

     Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Pat, I gotta tell you, you did a lot of things right with this lunch?kudos. You got back quickly, you showed initiative, and, best of all, you left plenty of room for improvement. Piggybacking on that last part, the ugly business of the critique.
3. (transitive, Internet) To 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.
4. (transitive, Internet) To utilize "last-mile" wiring rented from a larger owner ISP by a smaller ISP.
5. (transitive) To transport (a lorry/truck) on a flatbed railway waggon
6. (transitive) To enter a secured area at the same time along with someone having authorized access; to tailgate

Translations

Noun

piggyback (plural piggybacks)

1. A ride on somebody's back or shoulders.
2. An act or instance of piggybacking.

See also

• piggyBac

References

• NY Times, article on wireless piggybacking

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t??t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /to?t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Etymology 1

Probably from Low German tute ("bag"). Cognate with German Tüte (“bag”). Most likely not of Germanic origin. Confer Finnish tuoda (“to carry, bear, bring, fetch, get”).

Noun

tote (plural totes)

1. A tote bag.
2. A heavy burden.
3. (logistics) A kind of plastic box used for transporting goods.
   • 2012, Chittaranjan Kole, Chandrashekhar P. Joshi, David R. Shonnard, Handbook of Bioenergy Crop Plants (page 129)

     They can be used for palleted bags, totes, or bales and can also be used to transport large logs.

Translations

Verb

tote (third-person singular simple present totes, present participle toting, simple past and past participle toted)

1. (Southern US) To carry or bear.
   • 1980, Stephen King, The Wedding Gig

     It took ten pallbearers to carry her coffin. There was a picture of them toting it in one of the tabloids.

Translations

Etymology 2

Short for total, with e to distinguish from tot in writing.

Alternative forms

• tot

Verb

tote (third-person singular simple present totes, present participle toting, simple past and past participle toted)

1. To add up; to calculate a total.

Translations

Etymology 3

Short for totalizator.

Noun

tote (plural totes)

1. (Britain, Australia) A pari-mutuel machine; a totalizator.
   • 1892, Banjo Paterson, The Man from Ironbark

     He was a humorist of note and keen at repartee,

     He laid the odds and kept a "tote", whatever that may be,

2. (Britain, Australia) Pari-mutuel betting.

Translations

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

tote

1. inflection of tot:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Ido

Etymology

tota (“whole, entire”) +? -e (“adverb”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?to.te/

Adverb

tote

1. entirely, perfectly, thoroughly

Related terms

• tota (“whole, entire”)
• totala (“total”)
• totale (“totally”)
• entote (“ensemble, altogether, on the whole, in all, in a body, bodily, overall”)

Interlingua

Determiner

tote

1. (quantifying) all, the entire

Japanese

Romanization

tote

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /?to.te/, [?t??t??]

• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?to.te/, [?t???t??]

Adjective

tote

1. vocative masculine singular of totus

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch tuote, equivalent to toe + te.

Preposition

t?te

1. up to, towards, to (a specific destination or point in time)
2. at (a specific point in time)
3. with respect to

Alternative forms

• tot, toete, toet

Descendants

• Dutch: tot
  • Afrikaans: tot
• Limburgish: tót

Further reading

• “tote (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “tote (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I