It is an idealized version of the ordinary romping game of pickaback. |
Sue begged, so Tom carried her pickaback, while Sue held tightly to her doll. |
This brought Horace around in a minute, and called forth a pickaback ride. |
Reduplication is responsible for pickaback, earlier pickpack, from pack, bundle. |
The young men then decided that they would carry him pickaback at turns, and so they did. |
The giant who carried the old man in pickaback the first night of the war! |