# huckepack

huckepack is a German adverb meaning “carried on someone’s back”.

## In other languages

- Русский: закорки, на спина

## Meanings

1. carried on someone’s back (particularly another person); piggyback
   - Sie trägt ihren kleinen Bruder huckepack. — She’s carrying her little brother piggyback.
2. _childish · colloquial · figurative_ piggyback; pickaback; pooseback
   - Er nahm sie huckepack, da sie trockenen Fußes ans andere Ufer wollte.

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