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Piggyback vs Mockbuster - What's the difference?

piggyback | mockbuster |

As an adjective piggyback

is on somebody's back or shoulders.

As an adverb piggyback

is on somebody's back or shoulders.

As a verb piggyback

is to attach or append something to another (usually larger) object or event.

As a noun mockbuster is

a relatively low-budget film given a similar theme and title to a popular blockbuster in an attempt to piggyback on its success.

piggyback

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • On somebody's back or shoulders.
  • a piggyback ride
  • Pertaining to transportation of goods where one transportation unit is carried on the back of something else. For example, a truck on a train.
  • Until this time the railroads had favored piggyback services (...)'' (''John H. Mahoney'', ''Intermodal Freight Transportation , 1985)

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • On somebody's back or shoulders.
  • to ride piggyback

    Synonyms

    * (sense, on somebody's back or shoulders) pooseback (some US dialects)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To 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.
  • (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.
  • (Internet) Utilizing last mile wiring (not wireless slang) rented from a larger owner ISP by a smaller ISP, last milers are obligated to sell to competitors in places like Canada.
  • to carry someone on the back or shoulders.
  • References

    * NY Times, article on wireless piggybacking

    mockbuster

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) A relatively low-budget film given a similar theme and title to a popular blockbuster in an attempt to piggyback on its success.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 7, author=Rolf Potts, title=The New B Movie, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=Whereas the Asylum had a well-defined audience as a horror-movie company, the mockbuster strategy aims at a broader and shallower demographic: some viewers have seen the real blockbuster and want more of the same thing, no matter how lo-fi; some are genre geeks, interested in low-budget adventure and sci-fi films; others rent the movie thinking it is something else (Web sites are rife with the scornful entries of duped film fans). }}