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backseat

nounverbattested in dialogue

  • United States

To act in the manner of a back-seat driver or a back-seat gamer.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of back seatAlternative spelling of back seat.

Etymology

From back + seat.

verb

  1. 1

    To act in the manner of a back-seat driver or a back-seat gamer.

Forms

plural
backseats
past tense
backseated
past participle
backseated
present participle
backseating
third person singular
backseats
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Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).